Breaking Through tells the story of Francisco Jimenez, a Mexican immigrant, as he experienced America between the ages of 4 and 14 until a short time of deportation, and then again when his family re-immigrated until he left for college. Told as a memoir in first-person, Francisco tells 25 distinct anecdotes about his life as a Mexican immigrant breaking through barriers in America.
"My primary goal in writing both scholarly and creative works is to fill the need for cultural and human understanding, between the United States and Mexico in particular," writer and professor Franci...
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Francisco Jiménez