Los Sures

My highly fictionalized memoir, a sort of A Tree Grows on Mango Street on Rye, if you will. In chronological order.

Part 1: Childhood’s Smell

Part 2: The Apartment on South Second Street

Part 3: Desiree Who Was the Color of Cafe Con Leche

Part 4: Head Start

Part 5: Hell Is for Children

Part 5a: Our Booger Wall

Part 6: Ants in My Pants

Part 7: Donna Who Lived Downstairs and Who Put Her Hand Down My Pants

Part 8: Nuyorican Go Home

Part 9: When I Was Nuyorican

Part 10: How Do You Say, “Smorgasbord” in Spanish?

Part 11: Welcome to La Jungla

Part 12: A Nuyorican in Ponce

Part 13: Rio Grande, Mi Manantial

Part 14: In a Mountain Finca

Part 15: Canción Amarga

Part 16: Duerme Con Los Angeles

Part 17: She Actually Pinched Me

Part 18: Johnny Pump

Part 19: The Child Eater

Part 20: My Friend Adolph Who Was Dirty and Grouchy Like Oscar the Grouch and Kind of Like Groucho Marx, Too

Part 21: My Cousin Bobo

Part 22: Artists

Part 23: Papi’s Handshake of Steel

Part 24: Monsters!

Part 25: Enter the Cousin

Part 26: The Belt

Part 27: The Strange Case of Barbie the Poodle

Part 28: The Creature from the Southside of Williamsburg

Part 29: Easy Job, Good Wages

Part 30: The Voice through the Door

Part 31: The Creature Walks Among Us

Part 32: Up on the Roof

Part 33: You Gotta Believe

Part 34: Titi Taina Who Cut Our Hair

Part 35: Our Gang

Part 36: Strong to the Finich Cause I Eats Me Spinach

Part 37: Lay Off

Part 38: Halloween on South Second Street

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