Caramelo, or, Puro cuento : a novel
(Book)

Part 1: Recuerdo De Acapulo -- 1: Verde, blanco, y Colorado -- 2: Chillante -- 3: Que elegante -- 4: Mexico next right -- 5: Mexico, our nearest neighbor to the south -- 6: Queretaro -- 7: La capirucha -- 8: Tarzan -- 9: Aunty Light-Skin -- 10: Girl Candelaria -- 11: Silk shawl, a key, a spiraling coin -- 12: Little mornings -- 13: Ninos y borrachos -- 14: Fotonovelas -- 15: Cinderella -- 16: El destino es el destino -- 17: Green rice -- 18: La casita de catita -- 19: Un recuerdo -- 20: Echando palabras -- Part 2: When I Was Dirt -- 21: So here my history begins for your good understanding and my poor telling -- 22: Sin madre, sin padre, sin perro que me ladre -- 23: Man ugly, strong, and proper or Narciso Reyes, you are my destiny -- 24: Leandro Valle Street, corner of Miseriordia, over by Santo Domingo -- 25: God squeezes -- 26: Some order, some progress, but not enough of either -- 27: How Narciso loses thress of his ribs during the ten tragic days -- 28: Nothing but story -- 29: Trochemoche -- 30: Poco-you're kidding -- 31: Feet of Narciso Reyes -- 32: World does not understand Eleuterio Reyes -- 33: Cuidate -- 34: How Narciso falls into disrepute due to sins of the dangler -- 35: Detour that turns out to be one's destiny -- 36: We are not dogs -- 37: Esa tal por cual -- 38: Pobre de mi! -- 39: Tanta miseria -- 40: I ask la Virgen to guide me because I don't know what to do -- 41: Shameless shamaness, the wise witch woman Maria Sabina -- 42: Born under a star -- 43: El Sufrido -- 44: Chuchuluco de mis amores -- 45: Orita Vuelvo -- 46: Spic Spanish? -- 47: He who is destined to be a tamale -- 48: Cada quien en su officio es rey -- 49: Piensa en mi -- 50: Neither with you nor without you -- 51: All parts from Mexico, assembled in the USA or I am born --

Part 3: Eagle And The Serpent, Or My Mother And My Father

52: Cielito Lindo

53: El Otro Lado

54: Exquiste tamales

55: Man whose name no one is allowed to mention

56: Man from Mars

57: Birds without a nest

58: My kind of town

59: Dirt

60: When an elephant sits on your roof

61: Very nice and kind, just like you

62: Godless woman, my mother

63: God gives almonds

64: Sister Oh

65: Body like a raisinette

66: Nobody but us chickens

67: Vogue

68: My cross

69: Zorro strikes again

70: Becoming invisible

71: Great Divide or this side and that

72: Mexican on both sides or Metiche, Mirona, Mitotera, Hocicona-en Otras Palabras, cuentista-busybody, Ogler, liar/gossip/troublemaker, big-mouth-in other words, storyteller

73: Saint Anthony

74: Everything a nina could want

75: Rapture

76: Parece mentira

77: On the verge of laughable

78: Someday my prince popocatepetl will come

79: Halfway between here and there, in the middle of nowhere

80: Zocalo

81: My disgrace

82: King of plastic ocers

83: Scene in a hospital that resembles a telenovela when in actuality it's the telenovelas that resemble this scene

84: No worth the money, but they help a lot

85: Mi aniversario

86: Children and grandchildren of Zoila and Inocencio Reyes cordially invite you to celebrate thirty years of marriage

Pilon

Chronology

Acknowledgments