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AB - fueled by spray paint and cocaine, and a witty commentary on the city’s changing social climate. The novel speaks to kids like Dondi, born into a grittier and more colorful New York, but also equipped with the tools to succeed in a changing and increasingly gentrified city. Peter J. Marchand. The Bare-Toed Vaquero: Life in Baja California’s Desert Mountains. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 2013. 123p. Jeraldine R. Kraver University of Northern Colorado Peter J. Marchand’s The Bare-Toed Vaquero: Life in Baja California’s Desert Mountains, published in 2013 by the University of New Mexico Press, is a little bit of a whole lot of genres. In tracing his journey along the Sierra de la Giganta, Marchand draws on elements of photojournalism, photonarrative, and ethnography to describe the landscape and the lives of the families who inhabit it. As well, Marchand’s inclusion of Latin names for flora lends a scientific air to the narrative while his easygoing recounting of his journeys evokes travelogue. This eclecticism, though, is also the text’s weakness; its fragmented structure--of the book’s 122 pages, 33 are divided into five brief narrative “chapters”—are a challenge at any level. Most conspicuously, between the third and fourth chapters 
TI - The Bare-Toed Vaquero: Life in Baja California’s Desert Mountains by Peter J. Marchand (review)
JF - Rocky Mountain Review
DA - 2015-12-16
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/rocky-mountain-modern-language-association/the-bare-toed-vaquero-life-in-baja-california-s-desert-mountains-by-1qYMeJ0Pw1
SP - 289
EP - 290
VL - 69
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
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