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Ladataan... Eat the Mouth That Feeds YouTekijä: Carribean Fragoza
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. A short collection of kooky short stories. Some magical realism. Many parents. At least one story was not long enough for me to make much sense of. My favorite was 'The Vicious Ladies' as it hit a little too close to home. ( ) Really impressive debut, especially the first three or four stories in the collection. There were a few in the middle that felt a bit more like good ideas than fully realized, plotted pieces, but maybe that's just in contrast to the strongest work. Minor quibbles, though. These stories are full of energy and I'll absolutely read whatever Fragoza writes next. A deceptively concise work with a multi-dimensional scope that far surpasses those of a much greater girth. The stories nourish us with empathy and compassion; we gain insight into the existential otherness of the “Latinx” experience. Each story creates its own complete world - our orbit within these worlds encourages us to see around the corners of cultural bias. We feel a closeness and intimacy to the characters which is truly unique. The writing is vital and luminous. "But this year, the rain had returned, tenuously at first and with much distrust, as if over the years it had lost faith in the ground it was supposed to fall upon, and which it then furiously pummeled with great reproach." The rain of Fragoza’s writing drenches us and we are transformed. This book was awarded me via Literary Hub from the publisher - City Lights (thanks!). näyttää 5/5 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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In visceral, embodied prose, Fragoza's imperfect characters are drawn with a sympathetic tenderness as they struggle against circumstances and conditions designed to defeat them. A young woman returns home from college, only to pick up exactly where she left off: a smart girl in a rundown town with no future. A mother reflects on the pain and pleasures of being inexorably consumed by her small daughter, whose penchant for ingesting grandma's letters has extended to taking bites of her actual flesh. A brother and sister watch anxiously as their distraught mother takes an ax to their old furniture, and then to the backyard fence, until finally she attacks the family's beloved lime tree. Victories are excavated from the rubble of personal hardship, and women's wisdom is brutally forged from the violence of history that continues to unfold on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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