Immigration Blues Study Guide

Finally there is a small knock on the door and Alipio limps toward it thinking it had been only a month ago he still needed crutches to walk. Alipio had been hospitalized almost a year with injuries sustained in an automobile accident and he laments that everything went wrong after Seniang died. The resulting court case has left Alipio with a little bit of money and he lives comfortably but he misses his wife who died from heart problems before she was sixty-years-old. (read more)