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This book looks at the inner lives of Mexican immigrants in a northwestern . This one is the real deal. Philip Garrison is not talking about idealized images of a people

This book looks at the inner lives of Mexican immigrants in a northwestern . Philip Garrison is not talking about idealized images of a people. He is talking to the people who are moving from one culture to another and trying to make sense of it all. And Garrison is trying to make sense of their worldview. If you really want to get beyond the trite slogans about migrant labor, read this book.

Publication, Distribution, et. Tucson "Written with irony but bursting with compassion, Because I Don't Have Wings features vivid characters, telling anecdotes, and poignant reflections on life, unfolding an immigrant's world strikingly different from the one we usually read about. Adaptation, persistence, and survival, we learn, are traits that mexicano culture values. We also learn that, over time, mexicano immigrants don't merely adapt to the culture of el norte, they transform i. BOOK JACKET. Geographic Name: Inland Empire (Pacific Northwest) Social life and customs Anecdotes.

Philip Garrison is the author of Augury and Waiting for the Earth to Turn Over. He is one of the founders of APOYO, a volunteer group that offers advocacy, interpretation services, and a food and clothing bank that now serves some 400 people a month from central Washington’s mexicano communities. He is a recipient of the Associated Writers and Writing Programs Creative Nonfiction Award and a Governor’s Writer's Award from Washington State. He is an emeritus professor of English at Central Washington University and lives in Ellensburg. Philip Garrison (2 Titles).

Because I don't have wings. stories of Mexican immigrant life. Published 2006 by University of Arizona Press in Tucson.

Written with irony but bursting with compassion, Because I Don't Have Wings features vivid characters, telling anecdotes, and poignant reflections on life, unfolding an immigrant's world strikingly different from the one we usually read about.

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com's Philip Garrison Author Page. Recently, his book Because I Don't Have Wings was translated into Spanish and published by the Cultural Secretariat of Michoacán. Now semi-retired, he currently directs the APOYO food and clothing bank, which he founded in 1995, with several members of the mexicano community.

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