This creative nonfiction memoir narrated by a female voice, in a series of vignettes, draws on childhood memories of Dolores, the fourth-born daughter in a family of five girls, growing up in rural northeastern New Mexico. Themes of family life, cultural customs, language use, cross-cultural encounters and isolation provide the backdrop against which the narrator describes her observations and experiences from an early age to pre-adolescence. ATOP THE WINDMILL, because of its reflective themes, will appeal to both adult and young readers who have an interest in the rich Nuevomexicano linguistic and cultural heritage.

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