Taking Hold: From Migrant Childhood to Columbia University
Jiménez, Francisco
This final book in Francisco Jiménez’s memoir cycle that began with The Circuit begins with his arrival at graduate school at Columbia University in the late 1960s.
Book details
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-13
- 9780547632308
- Language
- English
Reading lists that include this book
- 2016Biography and Autobiography
Sources
- CCBC Choices 2016Source for: Description
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