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The tight-knit Izquierdo family is grappling with misfortunes none of them can explain. Their beloved patriarch has suffered from an emotional collapse and is dying; eldest son Gonzalo’s marriage is falling apart; daughter Dina, beleaguered by the fear that her nightmares are real, is a shut-in. When Gonzalo digs up a strange object in the backyard of the family home, the Izquierdos take it as proof that a jealous neighbor has cursed them—could this be the reason for all their troubles? As the Izquierdos face a distressing present and an uncertain future, they are sustained by the blood that binds them, a divine presence, and an abiding love for one another. 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Güero’s House “Truth was, me, Pop, and Mama didn’t live in any kind of neighborhood, not even in one of those new air-conditioned subdivisions where no one talks to each other. With our nice house hidden by mesquite trees and too many rooms for just the three of us, out north on Herrera Road with no one living next to us, Pop, Mama, and I were our own barrio. Even though we were a barrio of three, and Pop had tried to keep me away from that life, it still didn’t stop me from being an HCP associate, a friend to the kind of kids my Pop had run with as a youngster.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b832ca7cc8fedd01bfa7510/1546116990497-W3ZCA2MYN635U1QNBCAN/IMG_0151%252B%2525281%252529.jpg Scenes - Smiley Talks To Güero “Now we were sitting on the curb at the Dillard’s entrance, under a palm tree, trying to get shade because the sun was coming down gacho. Smiley had this camouflage Zippo lighter he always played with. He could do tricks with it, snap his fingers to turn it on, run it along his pants to open it, run it back to turn it on. He played with his lighter more than he smoked. I think he smoked just so he could play with his Zippo lighter. ‘You should forget about her.’” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b832ca7cc8fedd01bfa7510/1546117551233-PGDPA2RKPRADJP4KA1ZI/A900E94B-3B2D-45DC-8D3E-9C1EDF830330.jpg Scenes - Llorona’s House “Even though I didn’t want to, I started thinking of her. I could see us in that house together, laughing and telling stories to each other, recording songs from the radio, her dancing in front of me, pretending to be Selena, being different from how we were with the others.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b832ca7cc8fedd01bfa7510/1547219929304-E37JHQRLFHOVDRC9Z0AL/IMG_0048.jpg Scenes - The Bus Accident “She started drawing ghost faces and skipping school just to smoke cigarettes at Bonham Hill Cemetery and read the tombstones and would take a long walk to go spend time at the caliche pit where the kids had drowned in the bus accident. She had known a lot of them, and had even been best friends with one of the girls.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b832ca7cc8fedd01bfa7510/1547220306875-9MO4LOP74ZLN0YU0SVK4/IMG_0052.jpg Scenes - Tagging “The tags they made were nothing like the tagging crews’. They were made without pride or style at all. The way each tagging crewer made their name, you could tell who each one was and you had to smile each time you saw their name. Taggers like Trooper and Serch wrote their names in their own ways, crossing out other taggers’ names. But to them, crossing someone else’s name meant just that they were doing battle for space and names, but no one would get blasted. Their biggest thing was getting their name in the most visible, but hardest-to-get-to place, on walls and overpasses where it would be easy for them to get caught.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b832ca7cc8fedd01bfa7510/1547921712434-JIQD4F9VBO524JA6A94S/IMG_0259.jpg Scenes - Bonham Street “As we turned around, we saw a white Honda cruising down Bonham real slow. I said, ‘Guess who it is.’ Rey and Eddie were in the front seat and their music was thumping and they kept looking our way. With the windows rolled down, I could see their faces. It was like they were looking for us. I guess I had been waiting for this since we threw down on Eddie at the Red Carpet Inn.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b832ca7cc8fedd01bfa7510/1549945322377-UAWWRW61MVZHUYBRSU3S/IMG_0149.jpg Scenes - The Economy “Now that we were in summer school, Ángel and I went to the Economy after class every day because it was run by Ángel’s uncle Benny, this old school cholo who’d found Jesus in prison. The Economy had the best breakfast tacos around, papas a la mexicana, papas con huevo, beans and bacon, all the kinds that we liked.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b832ca7cc8fedd01bfa7510/1549945509548-O2T8LYF930BAAOXAF1Q2/Image-1.jpg Scenes - Bonham Hill Cemetery “Then I was looking for Llorona. I went to Bonham Hill Cemetery first, the place she used to go when she wanted to be alone, even though it was the furthest away from Brenda’s. She also went there whenever she ran away. It was the first place any of us looked. All I saw were the headstones of the people Llorona said she could hear if she really listened. I prayed Llorona was not with the dead, her voice joining theirs.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b832ca7cc8fedd01bfa7510/1550943360658-HJ7Y8BDZFMF55UX5IGEB/IMG_0336.jpg Scenes - Westside Park “On Sunday we went to see who was showing off their cars at Westside Park out on Ware Road off the Expressway. It was sort of like a lowrider car show every Sunday, but nobody won prizes and there wasn’t a bikini contest. Ángel, Smiley, and me went in the afternoon during that time when all the church people and viejitos are taking their siestas and some locos are just waking up. 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