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- Ellen Yuan
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- Location: Gloucester, MA
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- "Juan's Diary, Part 1: Looking at the Rio Grande"
- Summary: Juan crossed the Rio Grande illegally into Texas four years before he first recorded with Radio Diaries. At the time of his original diary, Juan and his family lived in a poor community just this side of the US-Mexican border. This story is part of the Teenage Diaries series produced by Radio Diaries for NPR. *Podcast with Juan's Teenage Diary also included.
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Review of Juan in Laredo: Looking at the Rio Grande
Ellen Yuan
Posted on March 10, 2004 at 07:35 PM
This is a great slice-of-life piece about a young man's experience living
just over the border in the United States. In less than ten minutes, Juan
covers a wide range of emotional territory (from humor to horror, from
anguish to hope) all in a beautifully soft-spoken narrative. The ambient
sounds, music, and voices of his family make this an extremely rich piece.