TY - BOOK AU - Paredes,Américo AU - Saldívar,Ramón TI - The hammon and the beans and other stories SN - 9781518501746 AV - PS3531.A525 ebook U1 - 813.54 PY - 2017///] CY - Houston, Texas PB - Arte Público Press KW - Mexican Americans KW - Fiction KW - lcgft KW - Electronic books N1 - The hammon and the beans -- Over the waves is out -- Macaria's daughter -- A cold night -- The Gringo -- A small brown bird -- Revenge -- Brothers -- Rebeca -- Little Joe -- The gift -- When it snowed in Kitabamba -- Ichiro Kikuchi -- Sugamo -- The terribly high cost -- Getting an oboe for Joe -- The American dish N2 - The ongoing struggle of Mexican-Americans between their Mexican past and their American future. The cultural confrontation is taken all the way to the Far East with stories on Mexican-American soldiers fighting the Korean War and living in Japan. By the author of With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero UR - https://www.digitaliapublishing.com/a/46192/ ER -