. . "American literature." . . "Short stories Women authors." . . "Cuban Americans Fiction." . . "American fiction." . . "When is your culture bad for you? That is the question that weaves its way through this collection chronicling the lives of Cuban Americans from WWII-era Havana to contemporary times in \"el norte.\" Whether they inhabit blue collar neighborhoods in the northeast, the increasingly Latino-populated south, or Florida, the characters that populate this book -- many of whom are the children and grandchildren of exiles, who have been raised in traditional Cuban homes but whose only homeland has been the United States -- must decide what to take and what to leave from their upbringing."@en . . . "Short stories"@en . "Oye what I'm gonna tell you : stories"@en . "Electronic books"@en . . . . "Oye what I'm going to tell you"@en . . . . .