Reveles, Daniel <br/><br/>
Enchiladas, rice, and beans 
/ Daniel Reveles 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York  : Ballantine Books  , c1994. 
 - 261 p.  ; 21 cm. 
<br/><br/> "A One World book"--T.p. verso. 
<br/><br/> Reveles sandwiches nine courses of short stories between an appetizer preface and a postprandial epilog, spinning each yarn like a folksy retelling one might likely hear over the dinner table. Embued with delightful self-deprecating humor and O. Henry-like ironic twists, such as the monetary crisis that doubles as peripeteia in "Jeemy," these novellas deal with daily life in the Baja California border town of Tecate and its inhabitants, who reappear in successive tales. Absurd and often verging on the nonsensical, the stories don't explain the events except by rationalizing that "we don't control our culture, it controls us." 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780345384263 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>94219261 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Baja California (Mexico)<br/>Mexican-American Border region---Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Short stories
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3568.E785  / E53 1994 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC REV