From KCET:
Stephen Gutierrez writes about the facts of freeways and being a troubled kid, the studious type derailed by sickness in the family. … His uncle, University of California, Irvine Professor Alejandro Morales, wrote "The Brick People" based on his parents' experiences living in Simons, a tiny factory town tucked inside Montebello.

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