The hammon and the beans -- Over the waves is out -- Macaria's daughter -- A cold night -- The Gringo -- A small brown bird -- Revenge -- Brothers -- Rebeca -- Little Joe -- The gift -- When it snowed in Kitabamba -- Ichiro Kikuchi -- Sugamo -- The terribly high cost -- Getting an oboe for Joe -- The American dish.

The ongoing struggle of Mexican-Americans between their Mexican past and their American future. The cultural confrontation is taken all the way to the Far East with stories on Mexican-American soldiers fighting the Korean War and living in Japan. By the author of With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed January 10, 2018)