As Lala explains, the rebozo was a garment that defined the culture of Mexico in her grandmother’s time: Soledad is born into a family of rebozo (shawl) makers whose artful creation process includes hand-dying and intricate hand-braiding of the shawls’ fringe. When Lala begins to delve deeply into sensory detail, Soledad repeatedly cautions, “Careful! Just enough, but not too much” (92). For example, when Lala opens her story with the phrase, “It was such a long, long time ago” (92), Soledad says, “It wasn’t that long ago!” (92). The voice of the Awful Grandmother makes frequent interruptions of Lala’s telling, dissatisfied by certain elements. It begins with the coming-of-age story of the Awful Grandmother, Soledad Reyes. Lala’s narration takes the reader back in time, not only before her own birth, but to the turn of the 20th century.
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