Immigration Blues (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: N. Bienvenido Santos
- First Published: 1977
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The early 1970's
- Setting: San Francisco
- Principal Characters: Alipio Palma, Mrs. Antonieta Zafra, Monica
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Marriage, Friendship, California, West, U.S., Immigration or emigration, Accidents, Widows or widowers, Nuns
- Locales: San Francisco, CA
The Story
Alipio Palma, the protagonist in this story, is a Pinoy, an old-timer, as the Filipinos in the United States have been called. One summer day, when Palma looks through the window curtain, he sees two women dressed in their summer dresses, the way the country girls back home in the Ilocos of the Philippines would dress when they went around peddling rice cakes. One woman seems twice as large as the other. The slim one could have passed for his late wife Seniang's sister as he remembers her from pictures that his wife kept. He is correct in a sense.
Hearing the...
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