The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family

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A pioneering work from a visionary anthropologist, The Children of Sanchez is hailed all over the world as a watershed achievement in the study of poverty—a uniquely intimate investigation, as poignant these days as when it used to be first published.
 
It is the epic story of the Sánchez circle of relatives, told entirely by its members—Jesus, the 50-year-old patriarch, and his four adult children—as their lives unfold in the Mexico City slum they call home. Weaving together their strange personal narratives, Oscar Lewis creates a sympathetic but in the end tragic portrait that may be at once harrowing and humane, mystifying and moving.
 
An invaluable document, full of verve and pathos, The Children of Sanchez reads like the most efficient of fiction, with the added affect that it’s all, undeniably, true.

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