Western Avenue and Other Fictions

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Western Avenue And Other Fictions Camino del Sol A Latina and Latino Literary Series Western Avenue And Other Fictions Fred Arroyo tucson © 2012 Fred Arroyo All rights reserved www.uapress.arizona.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Arroyo, Fred, 1966– Western Avenue and other fictions / Fred Arroyo. p. cm. — (Camino del sol: a Latina and Latino literary series) ISBN 978-0-8165-0233-2 (pbk. : acid-free paper) I. Title. PS3601.R725W47 2012 813’.6–dc23 2011043553 Publication of this book is made possible in part by the proceeds of a permanent endowment created with the assistance of a Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency. Manufactured in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper containing a minimum of 30% post-consumer waste and processed chlorine free. 17 16 15 14 13 12 6 5 4 3 2 1 En Memoria de señora Monserrate Pérez Rivera Nació el 13 de marzo de 1923 Falleció el 8 de febrero de 2011 y para Charles Francis Arroyo que descubre la vida en breves gestos What makes it possible to believe in something you know is impossible and to act as if it were not only possible but true? Maybe that’s the only way anybody can ever really believe in anything. —Barry Gifford, The Phantom Father ...