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The Brick People Paperback – Illustrated, January 1, 1988

by Alejandro Morales (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
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This engrossing historical novel traces the growth of California from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries by following the development of the Simons Brick Factory. With an attention to historical reality blended with myth and legend, the prolific Morales recounts the epic struggle of a people to forge their destiny, along with California's.
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  1. Print length
    300 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Arte Publico Press
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1988
  5. Dimensions
    5.52 x 0.9 x 8.58 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0934770913
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0934770910
  8. Lexile measure
    940L
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A wealthy woman prophesies that when she dies she will become an insect, never to leave the land she loves. Upon her death in 1878, the townspeople of Pasadena, Calif., find the remains of her clothing infested with hundreds of large brown bugs. This legend, related in its first pages, presages the subsequent events of this dramatic novel, as these indefatigable creatures appear repeatedly both as a portent and final evidence of death. In his first English work, Mexican writer Morales eloquently fuses the fantastic and the factual as he traces the growth of early California from 1892 to the late 1940s. Within this broad scope, the book intimately focuses on the families behind the establishment and success of the booming Simons Brickyardthe rich American brothers Joseph and Walter Simons and the hundreds of Mexican immigrants who have fled a tyrannical regime and feudal hacienda system. The vivid clan of Octavio and Nana Revueltas and Octavio's many brothers illustrates both the increasing material comfort and spiritual discontent of the workers who realize that they have merely exchanged one brand of feudalism for another, namely the Simons's paternalism. In the hopeful but unsentimental novel, amid the red dust of the brickyards and periodic earthquakes of California, "the place where paradise trembles," the Mexicans struggle to find acceptance and to claim their adopted land as their own.
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"Morales eloquently fuses the fantastic and the factual as he traces the growth of early California ..." -- Publishers Weekly

"The Brick People "will engross almost anyone with a curiousity about northern Mexico, southern California and their history." --The Nation

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Arte Publico Press; 2nd ed. edition (January 1, 1988)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 300 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0934770913
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0934770910
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 940L
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.03 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.52 x 0.9 x 8.58 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings

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Blanca Alcazar
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book 📖
Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2016
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My Grandma grew up in the Brickyard, she awfton talk about her childhood , but I was to young to understand. Unfortunately my grandmother is no longer here but with this book I felt that I got an insight to was she was talking about. Simons Brickyard motebello great part of Chicano history!
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Pete
5.0 out of 5 stars About history working in Montebello, Calif., Simons brickyard in the early years. A good insight to the life lived in those days
Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2016
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I love this book after reading it because its about my heritage and where my Mom grew up. It gives accurate accounts and describes what like life was about living in Simons. Its not a biography but it gives a good insight to the lives through the characters.
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Steve Sosnowski
5.0 out of 5 stars Great
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2013
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If you live in LA or have in the past, this is a fascinating piece of local history. It's well written and entertaining as well as informative. Best book I've read in a while.
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Rosa
4.0 out of 5 stars Awesome
Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2021
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This was a great read. Lots of great history about the cuty I now live in.
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Stephanie
5.0 out of 5 stars ... my college class and I truly found it a great read!
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2015
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I read this book for my college class and I truly found it a great read!!
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John Luna
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting!
Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2016
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Great Story......Small part of our family history!
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Paul Oliverio
3.0 out of 5 stars Los Angeles Company Town Gets Exported From Mexico...
Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2016
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Highly recommended for people with a serious interest
in little-known but important historical contributions
of Mexican families to the evolution
of Los Angeles architecture.
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M. Valdez
1.0 out of 5 stars Missed Opportunity
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2017
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I am familiar with the City and street where this story takes place because I grew up there. In all fairness to the writer, I must write that for me the story was disrespectful to the people who lived in the Simons. Why was this fictional? There are people still alive that could have provided their stories. This was an opportunity to inform people that the bricks used to build Montebello and the surrounding communities were built by hard working Mexicans who were denied so many basic rights. By Mexicans who were recruited to come and then told to leave after the work was done and the depression arrived. Why does the writer spend time or interest regarding the sexual positions Mr. Simon's son thought he had to use to produce a child? Why was that even in the story? Who cares? This book missed an opportunity to tell a real story. A story to make people proud. There is no shame in what took place at the Simons, there is only shame that people do not know.
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