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Maria tries on her mother's wedding ring while helping make tamales for a Christmas family get-together. Panic ensues when hours later, she realizes the ring is missing.

The Plum Plum Pickers is a social and proletarian novel that recreates the agricultural milieu where laborers are oppressed by landowners and their politicians, company executives, and groveling foremen.

Suruma ese lugar soleado, seco y polvoriento del sur de los Estados Unidos, tierra de chicanos que caminan por las calles con la cabeza tapada con gorras de béisbol, como esperando a que los descubra un "scout" de los Yankees a los Dodgers. Suruma, ese lugar mitico, espíritu generador de esta narrativa, la mejor de Elizondo, creo, donde convergen las esencias de tres ninas encantadoras descritas, como en pocos textos, por ojo clínico del autor,...

From the Publisher: Soy la Avon Lady and Other Stories, is a stunning debut collection of short stories that explore identity issues in the Latino community. The cast of characters in her stories include a young boy-impelled by his guilt over failing to prevent his parents' divorce-who seeks to save an abandoned baby, an elderly man attempting to invoke his dead wife by regularly donning her clothing and make-up, a former National Guardsman whose...

While helping his father and grandfather work as gardeners in Fresno, California, ten-year-old Rudy sees some differences between his Mexican-American family and the wealthy families that live nearby.

"Este clásico de la literatura chicana cuenta la historia de cuatro generaciones de una familia de inmigrantes y captura una realidad tan actual hoy en día como cuando fue publicado por primera vez en 1970"--Back cover.

Maya, the flower girl, describes a Mexican American wedding through snapshots of the day's events, beginning with the procession to the altar and ending with her sleeping after the dance.