Note: May be the first work of science fiction by a Chicano writer.

Synopsis: "Explores the alien-meets-Earth model in an entirely different cultural context. Tenorio's novel is not set in the United States but in the fictional African nation of Morunda, where Nifty, an extraterrestrial, is discovered by two missionaries who take him in and raise him as their son." (Source: "Science Fiction" by Emily Maguire, The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature, 2013)