Word: pachuquito
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...there's scarcely anyone to play bridge with. She begins to tap the stock of sherry in the cellar and becomes a befuddled wino. Along with looking after Mama and completing the process of growing up, Josh has some special problems of his own. Change Lopez, the meanest pachuquito in town, threatens to castrate him; an assignation becomes an embarrassing flop; and he can't decide whether he loves the Episcopal rector's daughter or the gardener's. Eventually, like Huck Finn, Penrod and Holden Caulfield, all of whom he resembles, Josh painfully squirms through...
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