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Brides have their dreams, sinners their secrets, but sometimes it's not so easy to tell them apart. In the border town of El Paso--better known to its Mexican American residents as El Chuco--dramas unfold in humdrum households every day as working-class men come home from their jobs and as their wives and children do their best to cope with life. Christine Granados now plumbs the heart of this community in fourteen startling stories, uncovering the dreams and secrets in which ordinary people sometimes lose themselves. Many fictional accounts of barrio life play up tradition and nostalgia;

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Brides and Sinners in El Chuco
• Author: Christine Granados
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136
• EAN: 9780816524921
• ISBN: 9780816524921
• ID: 06310504
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Weight: 195 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 154 × 8 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. February 2006

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