This title is winner of 2005 Southwest Book Award and 2006 WILLA
Literary Award Finalist. 'A charming memoir...While the legacy of
[Lucy's] father's life is fragmented ...her mother's background
offers a brilliantly detailed picture of border life with its
poverty brushed aside to allow joy and the tantalizing smell of
Mexican food to enter...Affectionate, articulate, and always
straightforward' - ""Texas Books in Review"". 'Adds to the growing
body of literary voices emerging from the border region of El Paso,
Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. The uniqueness of
Fisher-West's voice is found in her ability to represent the Rio
Grande as a source that unites people rather than as a divide that
separates two nations. Her story celebrates the rich complexity a
bicultural, and in her case, international life offers' - Meredith
E. Abarca, ""El Paso Times"". 'A delightful source of information
about a way of Latino life that is sadly disappearing into the
melting pot of Americana' - ""El Paso Inc"". Lucy Fischer-West
knows the power of birthplace and of borders and rivers. Her memoir
begins with the story of her parents, one reared in Germany, the
other in Mexico, and how they found each other on the Texas-Mexico
border. Fischer-Wests own journeys take her from her birth in the
Hudson River Valley; to her upbringing on both sides of the Rio
Grande; across the Atlantic to Scotland and then France; and,
finally to India's River Ganges, halfway around the world from the
El Paso barrio where she grew up. Hers is an ordinary life made
extraordinary by its path and by the people who, having touched and
enriched her life, stay with her, as nurturing to her spirit as the
rivers that help her mark time. By focusing not on the conflicts of
border life but rather on everyday experiences made rich by her
appreciation of them, Fischer-West honors her rivers and the people
who travel them, cross them, live on their banks, and bathe in
their waters. Her story touches on the emotions that bind us to
others: anger, sorrow, equanimity, exuberance, and serenity. 'A
true child of the Rio Grande, Lucy Fischer-West is a woman at home
in the world' - Joyce Gibson Roach. 'The clear voice of my paisana,
Lucy Fischer-West, pleasurably transports me back to my native
city, El Paso, Texas. The stories of her Mexican mother and German
father, and her own international river-braided tales, enrich the
complex literature of the border' - Pat Mora. 'When one reads Lucy
Fischer-West's ""Child of Many Rivers"", one is not reading so much
about the great rivers, vividly remembered, that have run through
her rich and complex life and travels - the Rio Grande, the Hudson,
the Clyde, the Ganges - but of the deeper currents that run through
all our lives from their sacred sources: all the strong and
generous women like the author and her mother, like Mother Teresa
of Calcutta, who work bone-hard through the most difficult poverty,
heartbreak and tragedy, who nourish and nurture our souls, who feed
us their rich stories and make our deserts bloom' - Lex Williford.
The only child of a Mexican mother and a German father whose paths
crossed in a Juarez bullring, Lucy Fischer-West teaches high school
English in El Paso.
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