An El Paso author reflects on why he had to leave his hometown

An El Paso author reflects on why he had to leave his hometown

Carlos Nicolás Flores burst into the Latino/Chicano literary scene with his young adult novel, “Our House on Hueco,” in 2006. It received the Foreword Indie Silver Award for Juvenile Fiction. It was Flores’s depiction of what it was like for a young 10-year-old Mexican American boy to confront the discrimination and insults he encountered when his family moved from an El Paso barrio to a new house in the Anglo part of town.  Daniel Acosta Jr. F…