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Raining backwards / Roberto G. Fernandez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fernández, Roberto G., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cuban Americans--Fiction.
- Cuban Americans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (155 pages)
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Houston, Texas : Arte Publico Press, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Raining Backwards is an entertaining satire of the Cuban community in Miami, filled with hilarious scenes and characters, including a lovesick girl determined to be a cheerleader for the Miami Dolphins, a poor Cuban American who becomes Pope, another Cuban American who begins a guerrilla war to separate Florida from the Union and a ditsy plantain-chip magnate.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Retrieving Varadero
- Miracle at Eighth and Twelfth
- Times of Trouble
- With Coconut Flakes
- THE SOUTHERN PEARL
- Golden Fifteen
- The Good Night
- Vacillation
- Beach Party
- Resiliency
- I Can't Tell You, Pepe
- INTER AMERICAN AFFAIRS COMMISSION OF MIAMI
- La Chanson de la Cousine
- El Cantar del Olvido
- Barbarita's Refugee Meat Spread, 1961
- Keithlied
- The Sun Herald
- The Chain
- You Want Some Coffee?
- Boniato
- QUEEN CALLE OCHO
- What's Poesy
- Eisa Cabrouna Mi Las Va Pagar
- Barbie
- Connie I
- Wrong Number
- Barbarita
- Connie II
- You Really Drive Me Wild, Baby
- Bringing The Flag
- Connie III
- Tongue
- I AM
- The Price of Love
- As I Told You
- Raining Backwards
- The Price of Love (Conclusion)
- Doña Barbarita de Gonzalez
- + EPD
- Don't Bug Me
- The Six O'Clock News
- Who Killed C.R.?
- Gratitude
- Boys
- Untitled
- Joaquin I, Pontifex Maximus
- Tatiana
- Origination
- I Cultivated A White Rose.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 18, 2017).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5185-0304-7
- 1-5185-0207-5
- OCLC:
- 987090989
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