Bibliograph

Oye what I'm gonna tell you, stories, Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés

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Oye what I'm gonna tell you, stories, Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

Oye what I'm gonna tell you

Responsibility statement

Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés

Sub title

stories

Summary

When is your culture bad for you? That is the question that weaves its way through this collection chronicling the lives of Cuban Americans from WWII-era Havana to contemporary times in "el norte." Whether they inhabit blue collar neighborhoods in the northeast, the increasingly Latino-populated south, or Florida, the characters that populate this book -- many of whom are the children and grandchildren of exiles, who have been raised in traditional Cuban homes but whose only homeland has been the United States -- must decide what to take and what to leave from their upbringing

Table Of Contents

Niñas de casa -- The law of progress -- Enough of anything -- Who knows best -- Big difference -- Other people's homes -- Dr. Cubanita -- What remains of Max -- Like a dog -- Barbie doll -- Love and punishment at the clerk of the county courts office -- Tall dark -- Offerings for a capricious God -- El chino y la rubia -- Poor and unhappy -- Patron saints

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