Hard language
Subtitle: short stories
By: by Mike Padilla.
Publisher: Arte Público Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Houston, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: California -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "A Mexican-American construction worker's jealousy and controlling behavior become entwined with dark resentment of his wife's English-speaking abilities. Among his other startling snapshots, Padilla captures the day the family got together to tear apart old Aunt Eufrasia's house...the uneasy bonds holding together two elderly women, once the best of friends but now only housemates." -- Back cover.