"Juan Diego -- a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico -- has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees what's coming -- specifically, her own future and her brother's. Lupe is a mind reader; she doesn't know what everyone is thinking, but she knows what most people are thinking. Regarding what has happened, as opposed to what will, Lupe is usually right about the past; without your telling her, she knows all the worst things that have happened to you ... As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines ... where what happened to him in the past -- in Mexico -- collides with his future."--Jacket.

Lost Children -- The Mary Monster -- Mother and Daughter -- The Broken Side-view Mirror -- Yielding Under No Winds -- Sex and Faith -- Two Virgins -- Two Condoms -- In Case You Were Wondering -- No Middle Ground -- Spontaneous Bleeding -- Zaragoza Street -- Now and Forever -- Nada -- The Nose -- King of Beasts -- New Year's Eve at the Encantador -- Lust Has a Way -- Boy Wonder -- Casa Vargas -- Mister Goes Swimming -- Manana -- Neither Animal, Vegetable, nor Mineral -- Poor Leslie -- Act 5, Scene 3 -- The Scattering -- A Nose for a Nose -- Those Gathering Yellow Eyes -- One Single Journey -- The Sprinkling -- Adrenaline -- Not Manila Bay.