Francisco Gonzalez-Jasso, a longtime Little Village resident, didn’t know exactly how to make his way back to his childhood home in Torreón, a city in Mexico’s northern state of Coahuila. He hadn’t been there in 33 years.
“I kept asking people on the bus, ‘Is Torreón next?’ ” Gonzalez-Jasso, 55, says in his native Spanish.
In Torreón, he took a cab to his old block. But the years had erased his memory of the house. He paced the street, checking the addresses on every door. When he found the right one, he says, the house looked different. It was really small…