Book of the Week

This was the first book by Michele Serros that I ever read. She wrote one previous to this one called Chicano Falsa: And Other Stories of Death, Identity, and Oxnard that I would read later on but this was the first one that introduced me to Ms. Serros' style. A style that was serious and yet not so serious. A style that did not so much intend to follow in the pen strokes of other Chicano writers as to blaze a path for those readers who are not usually thought of by most literary types.

I wish I had thought to mention this book way earlier but I suspect that I feared my words would not be able to do justice to it. And yet there are times when it is better to risk saying the wrong thing than to say nothing at all.

R.I.P. Michele Serros

Mexican-American writer Michele Marie Serros -- AKA Michele Serros and best known for such books as Chicano Falsa and Other Stories of Death, Identity, and Oxnard and How to be a Chicana Role Model as well as for having been a writer for the ABC sitcom George Lopez for a single season -- finished the last chapter of her autobiography all too soon on January 4, 2015, at age 48.

She will be -- and should be -- missed.

¡Feliz Cumpleaños, Michele Serros!

AKA Michele Marie Serros.

Born February 10, 1966.

She is one of my all-time favorite writers of Mexican-American descent.

Of course, it doesn't hurt her popularity that she once posed for a picture like this.