Hard Language

by Mike Padilla

Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. California writer Mike Padilla has produced in his first book an award-winning story collection of remarkable artistic maturity, social scope, and psychological subtlety. Winner of the University of California at Irvine Chicano/Latino Literary Prize, HARD LANGUAGE is filled with hard-to-forget characters. Among his other startling snapshots, Padilla captures the day his character's family got together to tear apart old Aunt Eufrasia's house: It is like the christening of a ship, my mother said as the pickaxe swung...

164 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Mike Padilla/M. Padilla is the author of the comic novel THE GIRLS FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY CANTINA and the award-winning short story collection HARD LANGUAGE.

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