At a Houston bookstore, Texas’ first Latina governor’s win sinks in
Houston Chronicle · Sarah Smith, Daniella Jiménez ·
Texas elected Gina Hinojosa for governor, the first Latina to hold the office. At one Houston bookstore, the moment felt personal.
The little bookstore is quiet, waiting for readers to come through its door. It’s tucked into a converted warehouse in Houston’s East End, a neighborhood generations of Mexican-American families have called home.
Elizabeth Farfán-Santos sits behind the counter by a winding metal staircase, her eyes on her computer screen.
Because Wednesdays are her first day open during the workweek, and because it’s the time of month when people might need to put their paychecks towards bills instead of books, and because it is the afternoon after an election night that upended the last 30 years of Texas politics, she says she isn’t surprised she has the bookstore to herself.
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