You are a human animal.

You are a very special breed,

for you are the only animal.

Who can think, who can reason, who can read.

Hi, this is Michael Silverblad, and welcome this week to Bookworm.

My guest is John Sales, author most recently of Los Gussanos,

but author as well of two previous novels,

The Pride of the Bimbos and Union Dews,

a book of short stories called The Anarchist Convention,

and many films, including Madawan, A Men Out, Brother from Another Planet.

This one is published by Harper Collins, just to get that in. This is a book which gave me a great

deal of pleasure because a good deal of it is, um, um, includes dialogue in untranslated

Spanish. And I guess I begin by asking about multiculturalism.

Yeah, one of the, the things I wanted to get across in Los Casanos, um, is that you had an

exile community who, the book is said in 1981, many of the people

came in 1960 or 61.

In those 20 years, there has been a feeling of neither here nor there.

Are we going back?

Are we staying here?

Are we staying here, but keeping our culture intact, which might even be possible

if enough of us band together here in Miami and kind of grow a shell around ourselves? And I think

it got to the point where an awful lot of Cubans in America, and you could probably say this

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