Beyond My Adobe Schoolhouse - by Nasario García (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Nasario García dedicated his life to educating others in a variety of settings, including universities and prisons. A native of rural New Mexico and a beloved writer and folklorist, in Beyond My Adobe Schoolhouse García reflects on his experiences of being educated and of being an educator. He takes readers from his childhood in a one-room schoolhouse through graduate school and to universities and other settings in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Colorado, and New Mexico, all places in which he spent time teaching in various capacities. Beyond My Adobe Schoolhouse is a love song to education and a reminder to everyone that it is possible to find a life, love, and purpose beyond the circumstances into which they were born.

Review Quotes

"Beyond My Adobe Schoolhouse is one of the most heartfelt, fascinating, and charming memoirs I have read in a long time. It tells the full arc of García's educational life, from a humble, one-room adobe schoolhouse in a tiny village on the Río Puerco to a distinguished career as a professor, poet, writer, and translator. . . . It is the New Mexico equivalent of The Education of Henry Adams. I highly recommend Beyond My Adobe Schoolhouse."--Douglas Preston, author of The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story


"This memoir will touch the hearts of all those who love New Mexico. . . . Beyond My Adobe Schoolhouse will become a classic memoir of a beloved author that explores the intricacies of education and culture in modern New Mexico."--V. B. Price, author of The Orphaned Land: New Mexico's Environment Since the Manhattan Project

About the Author

Nasario García has published over thirty books of folklore, poetry, fiction, and children's stories, including Beyond My Adobe Schoolhouse: My Life in Education (UNM Press).