Binding: Paperback
Description: " In this exuberantly strange story collection Flores asks: Whose reality? What rules?" Jean Chen Ho The New York Times Book Review" These are marvelously unpredictable stories anchored by Fernando A. Flores's deadpan prose and his surefooted navigation of those overlapping territories the real and the fantastic where so much of the best contemporary fiction now lives." Kelly Link author of Get in Trouble Psychedelic dazzling stories set in the cracks of the Texas - Mexico borderland from an iconoclastic storyteller and the author of Tears of the Trufflepig. No one captures the border its history and imagination its danger contradiction and redemption like Fernando A. Flores whose stories reimagine and reinterpret the region's existence with peerless style. In his immersive uncanny borderland things are never what they seem: a world where the sun is both rising and setting and where conniving possums efficiently take over an entire town and rewrite its history. The stories in Valleyesque dance between the fantastical and the hyperreal with dexterous often hilarious flair. A dying Fr d ric Chopin stumbles through Ciudad Ju rez in the aftermath of his mother's death attempting to recover his beloved piano that was seized at the border while a muralist is taken on a psychedelic journey by an airbrushed Emiliano Zapata T - shirt. A woman is engulfed by a used - clothing warehouse with a life of its own and a grieving mother breathlessly chronicles the demise of a town decimated by violence. In two separate stories queso dip and musical rhythms are bottled up and sold for mass consumption. And in the final tale Flores pieces together the adventures of a young Lee Harvey Oswald as he starts a music career in Texas. Swinging between satire and surrealism grief and joy Valleyesque is a boundary - and border - pushing collection from a one - of - a - kind stylist and voice. With the visceral imagination that made his debut novel Tears of the Trufflepig a cult classic Flores brings his vision of the border to life and beyond.
Title: Valleyesque Stories
Author(s): Flores Fernando A.
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Inc
Barcode: 9780374604134
Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Date: 5/3/2022
Category: Short Stories