<b>Motivated by a love of her Mexican American heritage, </b> Patricia Preciado Martin set out to document the lives and memories of the women of her mother's and grandmother's eras; for while the role of women in Southwest has begun to be chronicled, that of Hispanic women largely remains obscure. In <i>Songs My Mother Sang to Me</i>, she has preserved the oral histories of many of these women before they have been lost or forgotten.
