My West Side Story – The Life of John Florez: A Memoir of Empathy, Compassion, and Dignity Between the Railroad Tracks on Salt Lake City’s West Side

by Diane Florez

As a weekly columnist for the opinion section of the Deseret News from 2003 until his death in 2016, my late husband, John Florez, wrote about the empathy and compassion that guided his life. Using those articles as the primary source, along with letters, emails, notes, and some excerpts and articles written about him, I compiled a memoir of his early years. John had a gift of making the past pertinent to our present-day lives. A "poor Mexican kid...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 172385154X
• ISBN13: 9781723851544
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"