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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;Granados, Christine is the author of 'Brides And Sinners in El Chuco Short Stories', published 2006 under ISBN 9780816524921 and ISBN 0816524920.
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