The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez
“His mother and her family kept pigs in pens outside their adjoining cinder-block huts. Anytime they came up short on food, they yanked one of the pigs out of the pen, slit its throat, and went on a steady diet of pig meat. Visitors were happily fed because there wasn’t an ice cube in San Matías to keep the carcass unspoiled. If the children became tired of the diet, that was their worry; they could show their ribs. If the pig meat ran out for all, then everybody had rib cages sticking out.In Br...ooklyn, Mariano worked at Kentucky Fried Chicken. He didn’t know the street it was on, only how to get there. He didn’t know what he was going to do when he wasn’t working in the afternoon, much less tomorrow. He was single but couldn’t go near the topless bars and whorehouses on Fifth Avenue. Lucino Hernández, at thirty-one the oldest in the group, told everybody that the Fifth Avenue bars were dangerous because they get raided by police and anybody without papers could wind up being deported at the flash of a badge.When they were not out of the house for work, they stayed in their room and watched shows on the Spanish-language stations or talked or slept.MoreLess
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