The Singing Charrito

Elena Poniatowska

SHORT STORIES. PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE, 2017. 32 PAGES.

In Santa Isabel Tola there is an aqueduct that people say is full of tears: all the water that runs along it came from La Llorona.
This is where Fernando Alonso lives. His father has shot himself and his mother, ‘too busy grieving', forgets to pick him up from school.
So, Fernando walks to the Towers of Light and Power in the centre of town, follows the cables that stretch across the sky and ends up in a park with swings and slides. ‘Now I'll never get home,' he thinks.
But thanks to his natural singing voice and skill with rancheras, especially ‘La Llorona', inspired by his mother, he manages to make friends: the mariachis in Plaza Garibaldi, who will help him to learn to look after himself.

PUBLISHED BY: Spanish PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE

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