Woman Hollering Creek: And Other StoriesA collection of stories by Sandra Cisneros, the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street and the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. The lovingly drawn characters of these stories give voice to the vibrant and varied life on both sides of the Mexican border with tales of pure discovery, filled with moments of infinite and intimate wisdom. |
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... dreams of weasels that make my child sleep the way he sleeps . She makes me eat white bread blessed by the priest , but I know it's the ghost of him inside me that circles and circles , and will not let me rest . Abuelita said they sent ...
... dreams of weasels that make my child sleep the way he sleeps . She makes me eat white bread blessed by the priest , but I know it's the ghost of him inside me that circles and circles , and will not let me rest . Abuelita said they sent ...
Page 92
... dream I was in church praying a rosary . But what I held between my hands wasn't my rosary with the glass beads , but one of human teeth . I let it drop , and the teeth bounced across the flagstones like pearls from a necklace . The dream ...
... dream I was in church praying a rosary . But what I held between my hands wasn't my rosary with the glass beads , but one of human teeth . I let it drop , and the teeth bounced across the flagstones like pearls from a necklace . The dream ...
Page 99
... dream I was dreaming . Twisted you like a spiral of hair around a finger . Love , you arrived with your heart full of birds . And when you would not do my bidding and come when I commanded , I turned into the soul of a tecolote and kept ...
... dream I was dreaming . Twisted you like a spiral of hair around a finger . Love , you arrived with your heart full of birds . And when you would not do my bidding and come when I commanded , I turned into the soul of a tecolote and kept ...
Contents
My Lucy friend Who Smells Lite Corn | 3 |
Eleven | 6 |
Salvador Late or Early | 10 |
Copyright | |
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