Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. "Yglesias is a writer of considerable subtlety and perceptiveness, with a strong sense of narrative form"--Kirkus Reviews. Having left the Anglo-Saxon gentry of Boston's Louisberg Square and the contentious left-wing intelligentsia of New York's Greenwich Village, Pinpin, a retired novelist, returns to his childhood home of Tampa. But as soon as Pinpin sets foot back in his parents' house--against his will and his better judgement--he finds himself snared in the mire of family politics and demands, with one cousin telling him not to trust another. Not knowing what to think, Pinpin is dragged along on a bizarre and hilarious quest through the back streets of Tampa on a mission to rescue his misguided young grand-niece.