The Candy Vendor’s Boy and Other Stories

“Issues of identity, cultural alienation and racism pervade this powerful first collection of stories by Chicana attorney de la Garza … The author shows a remarkably polished craft for a first-time writer, imbuing her characters with rare emotional resonance. De la Garza, at once, emerges as an important, new voice in Mexican-American literatre (one who can stand alongside such better-known practitioners as Rudolfo Anaya and Miguel Mendez) and leaves readers wanting to hear more of her rooted, feminine voice”. — Publishers Weekly

De la Garza “reveals through many voices, especially those of children, the sustained sense of isolation and loss of identity that have faced Mexican people on the Anglo side of the Rio Grande since Texas was taken from Mexico … De la Garza neither preaches nor crusades, but through the voices of her fictionalized characters, she simply tells it like it is”.