Tita Parra is from San José, California, and is the sister of Art Rodriguez, a very popular author of young reader books. After many years, she has now chosen to share some of her childhood and teenage stories from the 1960s and 70s, when oldies were played on record players and when it was legal to cruise the streets in suped-up low-rider cars.
Tita was always surrounded with a crowd of friends who lived on Virginia Place, the street where she was raised. She tells stories of her brothers and her parents, and how their lives changed after their parents divorced.
Tita experiences a lot of happy times in her young life and teenage years; however, you will feel your heart beating rapidly when she reveals some bad choices that could have cost her her life more than once.
She shares stories that will make you laugh and cry. More important, she reminds youngsters to resist peer pressure and pay attention to intuitive feeling that can dramatically change one’s life.
Today, Tita finds herself living a happy and fulfilled life. She continues to live in San José, California.