The next event in which family and loss tie into Jimmy's life and to his book is the abandonment of his mother. Jimmy, Mieyo and Martina are all abandoned by his mother and left with their grandparents. All so his mom could live the life she always wanted as well as the life that her parents dream for her to have."Although her family was Spanish and poor, she was fair skinned, green-eyed, and black-haired. Her family expected her to marry a well-off gringo with a big ranch, but her heart was set on Damacio Baca, a Mexican from a neighboring village." (Baca 10) Although Jimmy's mom had already chose how to spend her life, at the first chance she seen she was able to space that world, she took it. Even if it meant she would also have to leave
