Lee Byrd is cofounder of the El Paso book publishing house Cinco Puntos Press.
She’s also a writer, and her new children’s book, “Birdie’s Beauty Parlor,” written in both English and Spanish, is inspired by her granddaughter Emma. When Emma was young, Byrd would convince her to play “beauty parlor” to provide a brief respite from the challenges of babysitting a little kid.
“Our way of doing beauty parlor was for me to lie down on the bed and for her to just take every single piece of makeup I had and lay it on me,” Byrd said.