Mohr, Nicholosa - GEORGESS McHARGUE
GEORGESS McHARGUE
Realism is the order of the day in ["In Nueva York"]—realism with an ethnic garnish…. [The book] would provide a profitable unit to a high-school social studies class….
[It] seems, however, too obviously intended as slice-of-life fiction with the result that the characters are busier being Puerto Rican-Americans than being people. Several of the stories present intriguing situations but end inconclusively. An old woman's long lost son turns out to be a dwarf. A gay male marries a gay female. "The English Lesson" embarrassingly recalls H∗Y∗M∗A∗N K∗A∗P∗L∗A∗N without laughs. Happily, [something] better shows itself in the last few stories. In "The Robbery" and "Coming to Terms" a store owner kills a 15-year-old thief during a holdup and is publicly badgered by the dead youth's mother with demands that the storeowner pay for a headstone. In the end the man comes to terms, not with the mother ("This woman is stark raving...
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