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My Favorite Girlfriend Was a French Bulldog
My Favorite Girlfriend was a French Bulldog is a novel told in fifteen stories, linked by the same protagonist, our narrator, who--in her own voice and channeling the voices of others--creates an unsparing, multigenerational portrait of her native Cuba. Though she feels suffocated by the island and decides to leave, hers is not just a political novel--nor just a queer novel, an immigrant novel, a feminist novel--but a deeply existential one, in which mortality, corporeality, bureaucracy, emotional and physical violence, and the American Dream define the long journey of our narrator and her beloved pet dog, who gives the book both its title and its unforgettable ending. In its daring style and structure--both playful and profound, youthful and mature - and its frank discussion of political and sexual identity, My Favorite Girlfriend was a French Bulldog marks the emergence of an original and essential new voice.
Unrepentant Times
Six violent short stories from mexican authors: Alberto Chimal, Erika Mergruen, Yuri Herrera, Isaí Moreno,Úrsula Fuentesberain, Lorea Canales"Originality and the joy of writing abound in these stories, fea-tures that define each of these writers. Also present is violence, the thread that runs through each of these stories and serves as the watchword around which my friend Omar Villasana -the editor of this edition- has brought together each of these au-thors...This anthology will also be published as an e-book, a term to which I am still not accustomed but one that fills me with joy, knowing that it will circulate from web to web and that thousands of Internet users will be able to enjoy beyond the confines of phys-ical borders, something so necessary in modern times when there are those who strive to build walls and close doors."Elena Poniatowska Amor
Lost Memory of Skin
Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, a young man must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere children might gather. With nowhere else to go, the Kid takes up residence in a makeshift encampment with other convicted sex offenders. Barely beyond childhood himself, the Kid is in many ways an innocent, trapped by impulses and foolish choices. Enter the Professor, a man who has built his own life on secrets and lies. A university sociologist of enormous size and intellect, he finds in the Kid the perfect subject for his research on homelessness and reoffending sex offenders. The two men forge a tentative partnership. But when the Professor's past resurfaces and threatens to destroy his carefully constructed world, the balance in the two men's relationship shifts. Suddenly, the Kid must reconsider everything he has come to believe, and choose what course of action to take when faced with a new kind of moral decision.
Hyam Plutzik 32 Poems -- 32 Poemas
Richard Blanco: Through the timeless grace and art of poetry, my 1968 Miami merges with Plutzik's 1911 Brooklyn, our parents become immigrants from the same country, and our languages blend as one "[i]n the one, shadowed sea where all things melt," as he predicted in. "I Imagined a Painter Painting Such a World." May your lives as readersmelt into these poems as well.
Exile According to Julia
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The Arrivants
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Test Tube Envy
The scientific disciplines considered range from nineteenth-century phrenology and ethnography to twentieth-century chemistry, quantum mechanics, cybernetics, and chaos theory. In so doing, Brown critically engages the work of Foucault and other social and philosophical theorists as he examines the ways in which scientific prestige is manufactured and appropriated on the literary stage."--Jacket.
Zugunruhe
Zugunruhe (a German word used in ethology to describe migration anxiety in animals) was born from a specific image: cemeteries in Miami, where migrants are not buried in their own soil, their own land. This particular face of exile became a book built as a journey: it travels from the voices of people who escaped the war, totalitarian regimes and all sorts of political conflicts to the voices of those who died and now rest in a foreign country. But it is also a book about the author ́s journey, about her double migration. The cities where she lived, her own personal Miami, and the death of her father compose a bricolage in which memory and identity become diluted. It is mostly a question about migration itself, not only as border crossing but a constant process of arrivals and departures.
The Animal Days
A woman's story of movement as a both a lifestyle and a rite of passage, The Animal Days follows Julia's journey of love and rock-climbing across three continents. In this fast-paced novel, joy is linked to self-destruction, love is inseparable from death, freedom is twinned with unbearable solitude, and life is worth only as much as a given moment. The taste for risk and vertigo never stop: they feed each other as the abyss approaches. Julia, determined to never look back, lives perpetually on the brink, even if it means shedding her own skin in the process.
Cremation
An overflowing, mesmeric masterpiece about greed from “one of the most remarkable authors on the Spanish scene” (The Guardian) Along the Mediterranean coastline of Spain, real-estate developers scramble to transform the once pastoral landscape into tourist resorts, nightclubs, and beachfront properties with lavish bars and pools. The booming post-Franco years have left everything up for grabs. Cremation opens with the death of Matías, a paterfamilias who had rejected all of these changes and whose passing sets off a chain reaction, uncovering a past that had been buried for years, and leading those closest to him to question the paths they’ve chosen. In a rich mosaic narrative, filled...
