A review by lifeaskia
Retablos: Stories from a Life Lived Along the Border by Octavio Solis

5.0

I wanted to read this book while on vaca in NM last fall, for the aesthetic of desert and honoring the indigenous in a way. But here I am, having read it in the Midwest in early spring/but really it’s still winter. Traveling through different parts of the authors life, while he recounts moments of being Mexicano heavily drenched in mundane moments, pain, border woes, and the reality of being of color.