"The ruins" / by Patricia Preciado Martin -- "The iguana killer" / by Alberto Alvaro Ríos -- "Doña Toña of Nineteenth Street" / by Louie The Foot González -- "Juana Inés" / by Alicia Gaspar de Alba -- "Abuela" / by Rosa Elena Yzquierdo -- "Nubes" from Nambé--year one / by Orlando Romero -- "The horned toad" / by Gerald Haslam -- "The moths" / by Helena Maria Viramontes -- "The scholarship jacket" / by Marta Salinas -- "The circuit" / by Francisco Jiménez -- "Concha" / by Mary Helen Ponce -- "Eleven" / by Sandra Cisneros -- from Pocho / by José Antonio Villarreal -- "Sister Katherine" / by David Nava Monreal -- "Una edad muy tierna, m'ija" / by Thelma Reyna -- "Salomon's story" from Tortuga / by Rudolfo Anaya -- Prologue for The Comstock journals (or Sotol City blues) / by Olivia Castellano -- "The bike" from A summer life / by Gary Soto -- "The castle" / by Ron Arias -- "The McCoy Hotel" / by Denise Chávez.
Summary
A collection of stories by twenty Mexican Americans deal with the issues of growing up Chicano.