When Pini was a little boy, his Cuban-American family always spoke with mistrust of a mysterious “Them”: the big-shot capitalists, the good-old-boy southern crackers, the rich and the powerful.
Now that he’s grown into a worldly, successful adult, however, the only “Them” that still mystifies Pini is his own family.
Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage
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Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Project is a national project to locate, identify, preserve and make accessible the literary contributions of U.S. Hispanics from colonial times through 1960 in what today comprises the fifty states of the United States.
Jose Yglesias
The fiction of JOSE YGLESIAS (1919-1995) includes the novels Break-In (Arte Público Press, 1996), The Old Gents (Arte Público Press, 1996), The Truth About Them (Arte Público Press, 1999), Double Double (Arte Público Press, 2000), and the short story collection The Guns in the Closet (Arte Público Press, 1996). His writing appeared in such magazines as The New Yorker, Esquire, and The Atlantic, and he authored several acclaimed non-fiction works such as The Goodbye Land (Pantheon Books, 1967).
