Everything you need to understand or teach The Line of the Sun by Judith Ortiz Cofer.
The Line of the Sun is the fictionalized epic tale of Marisol and her Puerto Rican heritage. Set in the 1940s and 1950s in the small Puerto Rican village of Salud, the first half of the novel centers on the life of Marisol's maternal uncle, Guzman, his parents, and his siblings. It also details the life of Marisol's father, Rafael, and includes shorter vignettes that profile the lives of many other Salud residents...