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Ana Rosa pulls into the gravelly yard behind El Sueño de mi Abuelita to find a clutch of strangers—men, women and children—waiting in the dawn shadows near the kitchen door. She is not surprised; Jimenez had texted the number “10.” One of them, a young man, approaches: tentative, shy eyes surprised, comforted, disconcerted.
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Taylor, L.J. (2020). Machaca. In: Tales from the Desert Borderland. Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35133-5_1
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