Loosing My Espanish by H.G. Carrillo

Author:H.G. Carrillo [Carrillo, H. G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-48768-1
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2004-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

STRANGE HOW QUICKLY Román learned English after that day on the east green.

Like an American aristocrat, doña Liliana would exclaim, though because she couldn't name any—real ones like the ones back home, she once said—she is always ready with a list of movie stars just in case anyone asked.

As if he was born to it, doña Cristina told señora Figueroa and people who would listen times there was a line at the carnicería, and often making it a point while chatting with the ladies who used to come to make lace; afternoons at Amá's shop—for for years, even long before Marta left the shop to her, the custom has been to have either a standing appointment for the set and style of a bimonthly color or trim ladies keep no matter the weather until death; six-month touch-ups for permanent waves or straightenings are scheduled through December with each new year's calendar using the previous year's as a reference; though even emergencies to correct home-color applications or what Amá calls las penitencias de los unfaithfuls when regulars stray into dalliances at other shops and then return begging forgiveness and correction, they all, even new clients, expect a wait that can last up to two hours; nobody would think of factoring in the wait by approximating a time when a chair might be available; the rule is chisme for chisme, and where the woman who gives up her own story, tells her sorrowful woes of an errant husband or unloving children while Naty Valdez McIntosh cuts the crusts from the heels, files, applies nail lacquer, may be respected and trusted by the others, the woman who relays what she saw going on in the window across from her kitchen as she happened to be doing dishes later than usual one night or when she was awakened by the thud thud thud of a car stereo and needed a glass of water and an aspirin to calm her nerves just as a woman who routinely gets her roots touched up at the end of the month was getting out of a car that belongs to another woman's husband, or even better, seen a woman's husband leave another woman's house has certainly earned her value; better yet, however, and this has only happened once that I can recall, is the woman who had seen a woman leaving the house of a woman who had left her husband alone and taken her children with her to visit an ailing mother in Chihuahua, she is a woman who could have her complementary cafecito and fritura brought to the chair while her beauty is being restored; la chismosa with the ripest, sweetest, most succulent offering is the bravest and most daring because she also opens herself to exactly what she offers; which is why I believe that she always begins by saying, Charity for the sake of charity, doña Cristina, when she tells it—because somehow I believe that she believes that when she tells it she's setting things, all things, right.

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