La convivencia en la escuela, un hecho, una construcción

En el mundo que hoy habitamos y bajo los parámetros culturales que sostienen nuestro universo occidental resulta cada día más difícil establecer una relación consolidada con una persona de otro sexo. El individualismo y el éxito personal han horadado profundamente los cimientos para estructurar una familia conforme a la tradición. Y más aún resulta una tarea titánica mantener esa relación perfecta por el resto de vuestras vidas. Ahí surge la interrogante ¿Cómo mantener contento y conquistar eternamente a tu marido, esa persona con quien supuestamente has contraído un vínculo...

One year just after Christmas when Ximena is thirteen, she overhears her parents talking - a conversation she is not supposed to hear. She catches the word, "father," but wonders why they are whispering? Federico is the only father Ximena has ever known since he and her mom married six years ago. Of course, she knows she has a biological father, but her mom never talks about him - and Ximena never asks. All she knows is that he is "away" and doesn't live near them. But after overhearing her parents' discussion, she starts to wonder why she has no contact with him. At the same time, too, life...

"Welcome to Klail City, in Belken County, along the Mexico border in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. In the weeks leading up to the Democratic primary, Jehu Malacara chronicles the political rabble-rousing of Klail City’s wealthiest citizens in letters to his cousin Rafe Buenrostro. Led by Arnold "Noddy" Perkins, the who’s who of Belken County create a complex web of relationships. Wrangling bank loans, club memberships, and local politics, Perkins dominates the political and economic landscape of the community. When Malacara turns up missing, and the writer, P. Galindo, begins interviewing...

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