A manual for cleaning women : selected stories

Foreword: "The story is the thing" / Introduction / Angel's laundromat -- Dr. H.A. Moynihan -- Stars and saints -- A manual for cleaning women -- My jockey -- El Tim -- Point of view -- Her first detox -- Phantom pain -- Tiger bites -- Emergency room notebook -- Temps perdu -- Carpe diem -- Toda luna, Todo Ano -- Good and bad -- Melina -- Friends -- Unmanageable -- Electric car, El Paso -- Sex appeal -- Teenage punk -- Step -- Strays -- Grief -- Bluebonnets -- La vie en rose -- Macadam -- Dear Conchi -- Fool to cry -- Mourning -- Panteón de Dolores -- So long -- A love affair -- Let me see you smile -- Mama -- Carmen -- Silence -- Mijito -- 502 -- Here it is Saturday -- B.F. and me -- Wait a minute -- Homing.

A manual for cleaning women : selected stories

Short stories. Selections

Angel's laundromat -- Dr. H. A. Moynihan -- Stars and saints -- A manual for cleaning women -- My jockey -- El Tim -- Point of view -- Her first detox -- Phantom pain -- Tiger bites -- Emergency room notebook, 1977 -- Temps perdu -- Carpe diem -- Toda luna, todo año -- Good and bad -- Melina -- Friends -- Unmanageable -- Electric car, El Paso -- Sex appeal -- Teenage punk -- Step -- Strays -- Grief -- Bluebonnets -- La vie en rose -- Macadam -- Dear Conchi -- Fool to cry -- Mourning -- Panteón de Dolores -- So long -- A love affair -- Let me see you smile -- Mama -- Carmen -- Silence -- Mijito -- 502 -- Here it is Saturday -- B.F. and me -- Wait a minute -- Homing.

The Before Columbus Foundation fiction anthology : selections from the American Book Awards, 1980-1990

ocean of American literature / Chapters 7 and 8 from Fools crow / Excerpt from Not by the sword / North Albany : crucible for a childhood from O'Albany! / Saint Marie from Love Medicine / Lil' Yokohama from Yokohama, California / Swimming to the top of the rain from Homemade Love / Gravesend Bay from the Boys of Bensonhurst: Stories / I'll crack your head Kotsun from All I Asking for Is My Body / Chapter 14 from Lonely Crusade / Epithalamium from Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories / Mulberry's notebook from Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China / Excerpts from Ceremony / Chapters 1 and 2 from Praisesong for the Widow / Chaper 1 from !Click song / Immigration blues from Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories / Excerpt from Smiles on Washington Square (a love story of sorts) / only real day from the Chinaman Pacific & Frisco / Chapter 2 from 'Sippi / Chapter 3 from The Right thing to do / Recitatif / Chapter 5 from Travelling light / Chapters 1 and 2 from Mama / Excerpts from The House on Mango Street / Excerpts from Pet food and tropical Apparitions / Chapters 4, 5, and 6 from The Underground Woman / Excerpt from chapter 1, The book of Jamaica / Chapter 10 from Days Without Weather / Excerpt from The Ultraviolet Sky / Excerpt from chapter 1, The Salt Eaters / Excerpts from Griever : an American Monkey King in China