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Swimming Kangaroo Books
May 2007
On Sale: May 6, 2007
168 pages
ISBN: 1934041149
EAN: 9781934041147
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Non-Fiction Memoir
When she went to South Texas as a County Home
Demonstration Agent in 1940, Aletha Barrett was in culture
shock. Raised in the gently rolling green farmland of
Northeast Texas, Aletha was unprepared for the vast sandy
expanses and different societies she found there. From
unearthing baby rattlesnakes to exploring the unknown
spiciness of Mexican food, every day was a learning
experience. Ever an adventurer, Aletha ventured deep into
Mexico when it was largely unknown to North Americans.
Over the course of several trips she witnessed what might
have been a murder in Mexico City, endured the then-
perilous Pan-American Highway at the mercy of a drunken
bus driver and stayed in Acapulco when it was a tiny
village with just two hotels. In later years, after
marrying and having a family, Aletha always said she was
going to write a book about her life in South Texas, but
somehow the right time never came. After Aletha's death,
her daughter Janis Susan May, a writer and novelist, was
going through her papers and found an outline, some notes
and a rudimentary chapter or two. Janis Susan had been
raised on her mother's stories and knew them by heart, so
working from the notes she completed the book. It was, she
says, the best testament she could envision to the memory
of a remarkable woman.
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