Down Garrapata road
By: by Anne Estevis.
Publisher: Hampton-Brown
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Carmel, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780736231978
Subjects: Mexican Americans -- Texas -- Fiction; Family life -- Texas -- Fiction; Short stories; Texas -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: A collection of short stories set in a small Mexican-American community in southern Texas during the 1940s and 1950s, revealing the traditions, love, and social concerns of the families living there.
Table of contents: title: The Chávez family: Tia Pina and the Chupasangre, The dancing queens of Garrapata Road, The whistle, The gift of tranquilino trujillo, Chatita's night out; title: The Bermúdez family: Her brother's keeper, La Tamalada, The virgin and doña fidelfa; title: The Zambrano family; title: The Zambrano family: A reluctant scholar, The battle of the blackbirds; title: The Paloma family: Crazy Rita, The prisoner, A fork in the road.