2.  Yunioris the narrator
 Change of perspective: focus on Papi
 A humanizing view of Ramón de lasCasas
 A study of machistabehaviour
 The difficulty of immigrants’ lives in the US: racism,
hardship
 Is the American Dream possible?
 Transnational social networks among migrants
 Migration as complex process

3. “Come home and be good to her. Don’t yell. Don’t hit the
children. I’ll tell her that you are leaving soon. That will
help smooth things between the two of you.” (165)
“Nueva York was the city of jobs […] that had first called the
Cubanos and their cigar industry, then the Bootstrap
Puerto Ricans and now him.” (167)
“His generation had, after all, been weaned on the sartorial
lunacy of the Jefe […].” (170)
“Papi looked foreign, but not mojado.” (170)

4. “He’d been in the States close to two years and when
he met Papi he spoke to him in English.” (171)
“New York, he said, carefully omitting the Nueva and
the Yol.” (175)
“Many many murders. Mucho murders.” (176)

5. “Nilda learned about Papi’s other familia from a chain of
friends that reached back across the Caribe.” (187)
“It was the first time he had moved outside the umbra of
his fellow immigrants. The racism was pronounced.” (194)
“Then he should see his patria.” (196)
“In the end, he never visited us.” (197)
“I thought that I would never stop hurting. I knew then
what it must have been for your mother.” (207)

6.  “Ysrael”
 “Fiesta, 1980”
 “Aurora”
 “Aguantando”
 “Drown”
 “Boyfriend”
 “Edison, New Jersey”
 “How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl or
Halfie”
 “No Face”
 “Negocios”