Title: Hard language
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.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Fiction
Places: California