Barrio Boy
...pping was different. There was no marketplace and that when shopping you didn’t put the groceries in a whicker basket. Every- thing was in cans or in a cardboard boxes. Instead of a marketplace, there were neighborhood grocery stores. The grocers did not give children a special bonus, such as a chip or jelly bean. In another part of the book, Galarza says it was puzzling that the American did not live in blocks like he did on Leandro Valle. Even in the alleys, where people knew one another better, the houses were fenced apart. There wasn’t no central courts to wash clothes, talk and play with the other children. The Sacramento barrio did not have a place which was the middle of things for everyone. In more personal ways, Galarza and his family had to get use to the Americans. Am...