Short Story: A Toast to Cuca's Multicultural Vida in Boyle Heights

Cuca's Conundrums Episode Eleven: A Toast to Cuca's Multicultural Vida in Boyle Heights, is a story about Cuca's cousin, Dora and her friends in the Minervas, Club Femenil of the YWCA, taking their theatrical talents to Méjico City, holding their meetings at Sanborn’s Coffee Shop, where they make a toast to Cuca. Cuca’s Tia invites Dora’s friends and her neighbors to Cuca’s Fourth of July Birthday party. A librarian’s goofy brother teases 13 year old Cuca so, she throws a Piñata at him. Cuca catches Dora’s boyfriend playing Rooster-Gallo, with la Boyle Heights Librarian. Cuca and Miriam make him rush to Méjico, where he has been ordered to propose to Dora.

Short story about undocumented immigrants. Suitable for Hispanic/Latinio/Chicano & Multicultural Oral Presentations.This collection of 17 interrelated short stories was first published by the author, Norma Landa Flores under the title, “From Jalisco to Boyle Heights: Plays for Reader’s Theatre, Stage or TV, A Collection of 17 Plays for Oral Performance.”

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These cuentos, stories about thinking in two cultures, speaking in two languages and adapting to everyday bicultural communication interactions with grace, compassion and humor, came from my family, friends and neighbor’s memories and conversations. Cherish them. They are part of our multicultural community’s herencia, inheritance.