With her usual wit and poignancy, Guadalupe Loaeza delivers a series of stories as entertaining as they are revealing. At first, the characters and situations seem to simply be imaginations and stories made up by the author. However, one can take a look at Mexico's history of the past three decades and realize that everything described is a part of the national, tragic reality. The men and women throughout these pages are representative of a particular social sector whose habits, attitudes, and behaviors are described with meticulous realism.