A Story of Stories

• Releasing for Hispanic Heritage Month
• Writings celebrate the richness of the Mexican American voice of Chihuahuita, identified by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2016 as one of America's Most Endangered Historic Places


• González is from the El Paso border barrio of Chihuahuita, called the Ellis Island of the Southwest and ground zero for border literary lore


• West Texas/Mexico border folklore and literary history; Mexican American studies; women's studies; border studies; Texas history; Texas literary history


• Writing collected from more than 750 typewritten pages of Spanish and English poems, short stories, fables, and dichos by Ramona González (1906–1995)


• Spanning four decades, González's writings capture a rich yet mostly unpublished heritage of West Texas/Mexico border folklore and literary history, bilingual Spanish. English originally written mostly in Spanish


• Three-generation family project: writer Ramona González; son-in-law Neil J. Devereaux, translator of her writings; and granddaughter Cristina Devereaux Ramírez, editor and historian