Migrants (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Elizabeth Tallent
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The mid-1980's
- Setting: Colorado
- Principal Characters: Sissy, Rafer, A Mexican farmworker
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Girls, United States or Americans, Adolescence, Teenagers, 1980’s, Farms, farmers, or farming, Mexico or Mexicans, Latinos
- Locales: Colorado
The Story
Sissy, a high-school senior, is living with her father in a rented farmhouse near a small town in Colorado, after moving there from Iowa after her mother ran away with her boyfriend to Los Angeles. Sissy is alone much of the time while her father, Rafer, roams the open land selling “Rain Cats,” giant circular sprinkler systems, to farmers. Sissy misses her mother, wonders what Los Angeles is like, and hates the place in which she lives. She has an affectionate relationship with her father, but it is not enough: “All spring in Wheaton, where she knows no one and...
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