Monday, February 8, 2010

The Day it Snowed Tortillas

The Day it Snowed Tortillas

By Joe Hayes



Published by Cinco Puntos Press (2003)


Genre: Multicultural, short stories, humor, folk tales


Pages: 144


This is full of short stories that are folk tales from New Mexico. One was about a wise wife. Another was a Cinderella story. There was also some about a lier and two men in a graveyard and the ghost story of La Llorona. The stories were in Spanish, with the English translation.


I laughed so hard when I read the story about the drunks listening to "St. Peter" and "Diablo" splitting up the souls. But I have two Spanish roommates that grew up hearing the stories of La Llorona and it was fun reading that story and hearing their versions of that story.


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