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Available on Feb 09, 2027 | 256 Pages
From the breakout award-winning author of Malas, a series of linked stories following the members of a big Mexican American family exploring the pressure points of familial obligations and the complexities of love.
From the author of Malas comes a short-story collection that centers the challenges of family, with characters constantly trying to navigate a web of allegiances and seeking breathing space for themselves. A young boy from the barrio settles a wager his dead father made with a rich man. A sister tries to make sense of her brother’s career as a bull rider. A group of kids searches for the bogeyman haunting their grandmother’s house. A suburban wife aches to understand her volatile husband.
All these individuals’ dreams, desires, and fears swirl together to form a portrait of what it means to be family—one that’s imperfect and difficult but truer to life than any one perspective could be.
From the author of Malas comes a short-story collection that centers the challenges of family, with characters constantly trying to navigate a web of allegiances and seeking breathing space for themselves. A young boy from the barrio settles a wager his dead father made with a rich man. A sister tries to make sense of her brother’s career as a bull rider. A group of kids searches for the bogeyman haunting their grandmother’s house. A suburban wife aches to understand her volatile husband.
All these individuals’ dreams, desires, and fears swirl together to form a portrait of what it means to be family—one that’s imperfect and difficult but truer to life than any one perspective could be.
Author
Marcela Fuentes
Marcela Fuentes is an award-winning fiction writer and essayist. Her work has appeared in the Indiana Review, Texas Highways, Ploughshares, and other journals. Her debut novel, Malas, was a Good Morning America Book Club pick for June 2024, and was longlisted for the 2024 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her linked story collection, My Heart Has More Rooms Than a Whorehouse is forthcoming from Viking. She lives in Fort Worth, Texas.
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