Pa'l Otro Lado

Juan Ochoa

Description

Pa’l Otro Lado, a prequel to Mariguano, spans five generations of violence and tragedy in the Cortina family while narrating their forced migration to the United States from Northern Mexico. It is the tale of every working-class family who has come to realize that “you just can’t win.” Hunger and poverty drive the characters in this novel to abandon all hopes of attaining the American Dream and to resign themselves simply to survive. P’al Otro Lado is full of the baddest hombres and the nastiest women we all know, love, and call family.

Contents

Quirina Moreno             1

Apa Chema Falls in Love     8

To Kill a Compadre   22

The New Suit   32

Pa’l Otro Lado   45

La Olla           59

Dirty Mexicans   68

How They Met   74

Brothers   83

Four Years Without Sleep   90

Lourdes’s Birthday 100

The 4^th of July, Mexican Style 107

How It All Started 122

Acknowledgments  133

About the Author  135

Sujets

• México
• Family history
• Short Stories
• Mexico
• Sagas
• Migration
• Fiction
• Texas

Informations

• Publié par: Madville Publishing
• Date de parution: 17 octobre 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781956440546
• Langue: English

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