the setting of the collection, which is in south texas and the midwest in the latter part of the twentieth century, becomes one of the collection's subjects. corpus christi, which is located on the south texas coast an hour and a half from mexico's borders, evokes a set of questions upon which the work focuses. how can one find an identity among the fabrications, truths, half-truths and myths which have been woven into stories and passed down the generations? how can two linguistic heritages, spanish and english—"lengua" and tongue—refer to a single truth (see multilingualism)?