Cuentos del Centro: Stories from the Latino Heartland

Cuentos del Centro offers not only contemporary stories of migrant workers, growing up with an eccentric mother, and reminiscences of 1960s psychedelic trips but also historical tales when romance and love endured the hardest of the times. The stories in this book range from a funny look at adolescent love and the poignant story of a worker on his way back to Mexico to visit wife and children, afraid they won’t know or want him, to a wicked tale of female revenge on a philandering man and the chilling story of a young Latino family taking refuge at a stranger’s farm to sit out a possible tornado.