Description
The lives of working class Mexican America, where everyday stories offer a portal to myth and fable.
"No one writes like Dagoberto Gilb! I loved these energetic, soulful, and hilarious stories that by the end had me wondering if I''d encountered the sublime on the page."—Kali Fajardo-Anstine, author of Woman of Light
This collection of eleven stories is the newest installment of an ongoing, multi-volume literary documentary project, penned by one of the contemporary legends of Chicanx literature. Dagoberto Gilb''s cast of characters includes a young family whose exposure to a mysterious cloud of gas alters their lives forever; a high school dropout whose choice to learn the ways of the world from the adults at work in his uncle’s industrial laundry leads him into a dangerous dalliance; a former high-rise union carpenter who agrees to meet up with an eager old flame; an aging Chicano, livin
