Supersized quinceañeras have hijacked a Latino tradition
Tagged: book, family, latinaPosted on: August 9th, 2007“What used to be a traditional Latino “rite of passage” has turned into what one of the teenagers interviewed by Julia ílvarez for her fascinating new book, “Once Upon a Quinceañera-Coming of Age in the USA,” calls, in a marvelous example of insightful misspelling, “a right of passage.”
No longer a simple affair for family and a handful of friends, quinceañera parties have become as big and expensive as a keeping-up-with-the-Perezes wedding ”” minus the groom.”
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