Fight Like A Man Other Stories We Tell Our Children

Download or read book Fight Like a Man and Other Stories We Tell Our Children written by Christine Granados and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in the parched landscape of El Paso is the setting for this book of stories about people navigating their way through dysfunctional lives with the help of friends and family—people like Moníca Montoya, a housewife and mother whose affair leaves her pregnant, causing her to revisit the legacy of her father, a man who maintained two separate families on either side of the Mexican-American border. In spite of their bad choices, the characters in this collection never give up.