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November 18, 2010

Best Article History World

A Death in the Sanchez Family

An oral history of a family in Mexico City, in transition from poverty to the lower-middle class, as they scramble to organize the burial of a slum-dwelling aunt.

Oscar Lewis New York Review of Books Sep 1969 40min Permalink