Family Pictures is the story of Carmen Lomas Garza\'s girlhood in Kingsville, Texas: celebrating birthdays, making tamales, picking cactus, and confiding to her sister her dreams of becoming an artist.
The paintings and stories reflect the author\'s strong sense of Family and community and demonstrate how her mother\'s love.
These day-to-day experiences are told through fifteen paintings and stories, each focusing on a different aspect of Carmen\'s traditional Mexican American culture growing up.
Family Pictures is the story of Carmen Lomas Garza\'s girlhood in Kingsville, Texas: celebrating birthdays, making tamales, picking cactus, and confiding to her sister her dreams of becoming an artist