Crimes of the Tongue: Essays and Stories

"A native of El Paso/Ciudad Juâarez region, ... author and scholar Alicia Gaspar de Alba writes that she grew up with a 'forked tongue and a severe case of cultural schizophrenia, the split in the psyche that happens to someone who grows up in the borderlands between nations, languages and cultures.' Border dwellers struggle with place and identity in the short fiction [and essays] in this collection"--Back cover.