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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Part 1: Recuerdo de Acapulco
1 Verde, Blanco, y Colorado
2 Chillante
3 Qué Elegante
4 Mexico Next Right
5 Mexico, Our Nearest Neighbor to the South
6 Querétaro
7 La Capirucha
8 Tarzan
9 Aunty Light-Skin
10 The Girl Candelaria
11 A Silk Shawl, a Key, a Spiraling Coin
12 The Little Mornings
13 Niños y Borrachos
14 Fotonovelas
15 Cinderella
16 El Destino Es el Destino
17 Green Rice
18 La Casita de Catita
19 Un Recuerdo
20 Echando Palabras
Part 2: When I Was Dirt
21 So Here My History Begins for Your Good Understanding and My Poor Telling
22 Sin Madre, Sin Padre, Sin Perro Que Me Ladre
23 A Man Ugly, Strong, and Proper or Narciso Reyes, You Are My Destiny
24 Leandro Valle Street, Corner of Misericordia, Over by Santo Domingo
25 God Squeezes
26 Some Order, Some Progress, But Not Enough of Either
27 How Narciso Loses Three of His Ribs During the Ten Tragic Days
28 Nothing But Story
29 Trochemoche
30 A Poco—You’re Kidding
31 The Feet of Narciso Reyes
32 The World Does Not Understand Eleuterio Reyes
33 Cuídate
34 How Narciso Falls into Disrepute Due to Sins of the Dangler
35 The Detour That Turns Out to Be One’s Destiny
36 We Are Not Dogs
37 Esa Tal por Cual
38 ¡Pobre de Mí!
39 Tanta Miseria
40 I Ask la Virgen to Guide Me Because I Don’t Know What to Do
41 The Shameless Shamaness, the Wise Witch Woman María Sabina
42 Born Under a Star
43 El Sufrido
44 Chuchuluco de Mis Amores
45 ’Orita Vuelvo
46 Spic Spanish?
47 He Who Is Destined to Be a Tamale
48 Cada Quien en Su Oficio Es Rey
49 Piensa en Mí
50 Neither with You Nor Without You
51 All Parts from Mexico, Assembled in the U.S.A. or I Am Born
Part 3: The Eagle and the Serpent, or My Mother and My Father
52 Cielito Lindo
53 El Otro Lado
54 Exquisite Tamales
55 The Man Whose Name No One Is Allowed to Mention
56 The Man from Mars
57 Birds Without a Nest
58 My Kind of Town
59 Dirt
60 When an Elephant Sits on Your Roof
61 Very Nice and Kind, Just Like You
62 A Godless Woman, My Mother
63 God Gives Almonds
64 Sister Oh
65 Body Like a Raisinette
66 Nobody but Us Chickens
67 The Vogue
68 My Cross
69 Zorro Strikes Again
70 Becoming Invisible
71 The Great Divide or This Side and That
72 Mexican on Both Sides or Metiche, Mirona, Mitotera, Hocicona—en Otras Palabras, Cuentista—Busybody, Ogler, Liar/Gossip/Troublemaker, Big-Mouth—in Other Words, Storyteller
73 Saint Anthony
74 Everything a Niña Could Want
75 The Rapture
76 Parece Mentira
77 On the Verge of Laughable
78 Someday My Prince Popocatépetl Will Come
79 Halfway Between Here and There, in the Middle of Nowhere
80 Zócalo
81 My Disgrace
82 The King of Plastic Covers
83 A Scene in a Hospital That Resembles a Telenovela When in Actuality It’s the Telenovelas That Resemble This Scene
84 No Worth the Money, but They Help a Lot
85 Mi Aniversario
86 The Children and Grandchildren of Zoila and Inocencio Reyes Cordially Invite You to Celebrate Thirty Years of Marriage
Pilón
Chronology
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Other Books by This Author
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