Charles Mingus: Growing Up Absurd
Gene Santoro, 'Myself When I Am Real' (Oxford University Press), 2000
THE BABY, barely three months old and pudgy but with bright eyes and an inquiring air, was the center of attention as he fussed on the hot train. He was riding with his parents and two older sisters as they traveled from Fort Huachuca, the dusty desert army post outside Nogales, a grubby, boiling speck on the Arizona-Mexico border.
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