A Tale of Survival: Memoir of an Hispanic WomanA Tale of Survival is more than a Memoir of an Hispanic Woman: it is an important, quintessential American story of adversity and perseverance. This is a brutally honest and provocative tale of not merely survival but success from one who came from a time and place where success and upward mobility by a Mexican American was not likely. Unlike other Hispanic memoirs, Ms. Flores Hughes chronicles her entire life, which unfolds against the backdrop of