WMD MacheteMark Plimsoll LLC, 26/01/2011 - 564 من الصفحات The Pan-American "Huckleberry Finn" for the Twenty-first Century, a memoir of the young author's struggle with two realities, one Anglo-Saxon and the other Hispanic. In this picaresque "coming-of-age" memoir, we see a vision of North America's future in twenty-five years, when the Hispanic population becomes the majority and changes not only the demographics of the United States of America, but its culture. The author sweeps us along on a whirlwind of culture shock. He chronicles the adventures of a disgruntled industrial-age young man who feels a tribal and instinctual reluctance to accept the Third World's view of the United States, and America's foreign policy. But before he can assimilate the profound changes in language, culture, and reality, along comes a new relationship and an earthquake that stops a war only to kill twenty-two thousand people, and changes blind patriotism into something else. |
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... moved like a snail. "She bites hard. She got me a couple of times." "Where did you get all of this stuff?" I asked. My eyes darted from one mysterious object to another. "Mom and Dad collected all of it. Most of it's from Guatemala ...
... moved like a snail. "She bites hard. She got me a couple of times." "Where did you get all of this stuff?" I asked. My eyes darted from one mysterious object to another. "Mom and Dad collected all of it. Most of it's from Guatemala ...
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... moved without a scale I could grasp, it changed with enigmatic time intervals and perfect emotional pitch. The emotive voice played with the contradictions in the melody, the dilemma of a sad plaintive song that expressed the beauty of ...
... moved without a scale I could grasp, it changed with enigmatic time intervals and perfect emotional pitch. The emotive voice played with the contradictions in the melody, the dilemma of a sad plaintive song that expressed the beauty of ...
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... moved her body. She talked with a Californian's exaggerated animation, as if existence meant audition for stardom. I looked around the room. At the other tables with empty chairs sat more "normal" people, though most people surprise you ...
... moved her body. She talked with a Californian's exaggerated animation, as if existence meant audition for stardom. I looked around the room. At the other tables with empty chairs sat more "normal" people, though most people surprise you ...
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... moved her backpack off the forth chair. After I'd ordered a piece of pie, I noticed the men called her Cat. "With a K. It's short for Katherine." They compared strategies in the art of barter, as they all claimed to deal in native ...
... moved her backpack off the forth chair. After I'd ordered a piece of pie, I noticed the men called her Cat. "With a K. It's short for Katherine." They compared strategies in the art of barter, as they all claimed to deal in native ...
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... moved close to her, to share the view out the window as she spoke. I liked the shampoo perfume in her hair. "Central Americans resembled Filipinos or Indonesians because of a meteorological anomaly." "Meteorological anomaly?" "A weather ...
... moved close to her, to share the view out the window as she spoke. I liked the shampoo perfume in her hair. "Central Americans resembled Filipinos or Indonesians because of a meteorological anomaly." "Meteorological anomaly?" "A weather ...
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