Yellow Dog Dreams: A Mexican American Memoir

"Making do" is often considered a negative act. But what if it is a test of creativity, a challenge to search for hidden beauty in the circumstances or objects you consider unworthy? This process of improvisational innovation is the very heart of bricolage art-and for author and artist Jose Hilario Cedillos, it is also a way of life.

A university professor for the past twenty-five years, Cedillos wasn't a college student until late in life. When comparing his early circumstances to his current existence, it can be hard to believe that a path connects the two together. But as his remarkable memoir Yellow Dog Dreams so richly reveals, it was the very hardships he faced that fueled his imagination. From an agricultural fieldworker, to a jailed migrant, to an older nontraditional student still wearing his work boots, Cedillos tells his story with a stirring sincerity that will make you reconsider your own life to see what unexpected treasures you might discover.