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Taylor brings an ethnographer’s eye, ear, and many years of experience to this fictional portrait of life along the US/Mexico desert border. In these linked short stories, readers are taken on a wild ride from San Diego to Nogales, into Mexican and Chicano neighborhoods, failed spas and defunct mining towns, rambling Native American reservations and besieged Wildlife Refuges. Along the way they will share the conflicts, calamities, and occasional triumph of an engaging cast of characters. While these tales treat such familiar border themes as drug- and people-smuggling or hybrid and conflicting cultures and identities, they do so with a literary flair that revels in the rich diversity of border life as well as in its ambiguity, ambivalence, irony and often unexpected humor.



Table of Contents

Chapter 1: MachacaChapter 2: Hot SpringsChapter 3: Love and Lettuce Chapter 4: NAFTAChapter 5: Endangered SpeciesChapter 6: Burying Sheila CassidyChapter 7: Ranch RescueChapter 8: The Tunnel

Tales from the Desert Borderland

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    A Paperback by Lawrence J. Taylor, Maeve Hickey

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      Publisher Springer Nature
      Published 10 March 2020
      ISBN-13 9783030351328
      978-3030351328
      ISBN-10 3030351327
      Also in:
      Cultural studies Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Social and cultural anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Taylor brings an ethnographer’s eye, ear, and many years of experience to this fictional portrait of life along the US/Mexico desert border. In these linked short stories, readers are taken on a wild ride from San Diego to Nogales, into Mexican and Chicano neighborhoods, failed spas and defunct mining towns, rambling Native American reservations and besieged Wildlife Refuges. Along the way they will share the conflicts, calamities, and occasional triumph of an engaging cast of characters. While these tales treat such familiar border themes as drug- and people-smuggling or hybrid and conflicting cultures and identities, they do so with a literary flair that revels in the rich diversity of border life as well as in its ambiguity, ambivalence, irony and often unexpected humor.



      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1: MachacaChapter 2: Hot SpringsChapter 3: Love and Lettuce Chapter 4: NAFTAChapter 5: Endangered SpeciesChapter 6: Burying Sheila CassidyChapter 7: Ranch RescueChapter 8: The Tunnel

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