Finally the six masters, the hacienda owners, gathered together. The Continental Colonization Company had the Koreans stand up and form themselves into lines. The hacendados walked around and pointed at people with their canes. They singled out those who looked strong and healthy first. Unconsciously, the Koreans straightened their backs. […] More hacendados continued to […]
El cuartico donde los curas tomaban el desayuno era un cuarto que daba sobre el jardín de las rosas y donde vivía la gorda. Ese cuarto era bonito, con mucha luz y en una esquina había una estatua grande, grande que tocaba casi al techo y a ese santo lo llamaban San Cristóbal. Ese santo […]
I’D SEEN A photograph of Abuelita’s dead sister. I’d come upon it in her family albums, pasted in between portraits of my be-whiskered ancestors in their starched collars and fancy top hats. Her little sister had been laid out in white lace on her funeral bier with garlands of roses cascading about her, a cluster […]