Oye what I'm gonna tell you
Subtitle: stories
By: Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés
Publisher: Ig Publishing
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781632460042
Subjects: Cuban Americans; Women authors; Short stories; Fiction
Other titles: Oye what I'm going to tell you
Description: 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: title: Niñas de casa; title: The law of progress; title: Enough of anything; title: Who knows best; title: Big difference; title: Other people's homes; title: Dr. Cubanita; title: What remains of Max; title: Like a dog; title: Barbie doll; title: Love and punishment at the clerk of the county courts office; title: Tall dark; title: Offerings for a capricious God; title: El chino y la rubia; title: Poor and unhappy; title: Patron saints.