In his novel Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya explores the New Mexican territory and Chican@ culture through the eyes of the protagonist, a young Chicano boy named Antonio (Tony) Marez. With the help of Ultima, a curandera staying with his family, Tony navigates his tumultuous childhood riddled with challenging dichotomies within his education, future occupation, and religion. Anaya tells this story predominantly using English language but also code-switches...

Taking readers on a rollicking ride through history, a master storyteller and reporter, whose legend began in journalism, presents a paradigm-shifting argument that speech, not evolution, is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements--NoveList.