Joe hayes is hailed as one of the great bilingual story tellers of our time, his book The Day in Snowed Tortillas is awesome. It is about a man who finds a bag of gold dropped by thieves and takes it home to his wife. His wife knows that if the robbers find out that they have the gold her husband will ruin it and give it back. So she comes up with a way to trick her husband and the robbers. She stays up all night making tortillas and throws them all over the yard and when her husband wakes up she tells him that it snowed tortillas. The husband doesn't believe her so she convinces him that he has to go to school and learn that it does happen, so he goes to school. The robbers come as expected because the husband told the whole town about the gold he found. When the robbers ask the wife where the gold is she said not to believe her husband because he was crazy. he robbers wait for the man to get home then they ask him he tells them my wife hid it "right wife" he says, the wife ssays that he never said anything. Then the man says "you remember it was the day before it snowed tortillas, and the same day you made me go to school." The robbers left thinking he was crazy.
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