Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American (47 page)

Selection from
Mama’s Girl
by Veronica Chambers. Copyright © Veronica Chambers, 1996. Used by permission of Putnam Berkley, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc.

“Grandpa’s ‘Chicaudies’” by Fred L. Gardaphé. © 1990 Fred Gardaphé. By permission of the author.

“To Change in a Good Way” from
Fightin’: New and Collected Stories
by Simon J. Ortiz (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1983). By permission of the author.

“The Moths” from
The Moths and Other Stories
by Helena María Viramontes. Used by permission of Arte Publico Press.

“Talking to the Dead” from
Talking to the Dead
by Sylvia A. Watanabe. Copyright © 1992 by Sylvia Watanabe. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.

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