Yes Is Better Than No - Byrd Baylor

[Luke]

Yes Is Better Than No, Byrd Baylor, 1991, United States, NOVEL

"Maria Vasquez passes Saint Jude's statue, nods him a promise to notice him tomorrow, and heads for the B-29 bar where she knows there will be no white people and where she hopes there will be dancing: "It would be good to dance all night. When you're dancing it doesn't really matter whether there is a board nailed across the front door or not."...One thing all the Papago people in these stories know about surviving in an Arizona city run by white people: "They have each learned long ago to try to give answers which will most please the questioner. At times this is hard to figure out, but they try....Another thing. If a yes or no answer is required, they try to say yes."

(J.L., p. 323)