Sharply realized fiction located in a vibrant community.
--Kirkus Reviews
Description
Life in the parched landscape of El Paso is the setting for this book of stories about people navigating their way through dysfunctional lives with the help of friends and family—people like Moníca Montoya, a housewife and mother whose affair leaves her pregnant, causing her to revisit the legacy of her father, a man who maintained two separate families on either side of the Mexican-American border. In spite of their bad choices, the characters in this collection never give up.
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Reviews
Like the sharp-edged agave set against the El Paso cityscape that dominates the foreground of her collection's front cover, Granados's heartfelt stories about working-class characters of Mexican descent are razor-laced narratives that cut holes in prevailing literary archetypes and social stereotypes. . . . Granados's succinct and sharply worded prose hits the reader multiple times through her narrative's grounding in social realism.
--Western American Literature
Like the sharp-edged agave set against the El Paso cityscape that dominates the foreground of her collection's front cover, Granados's heartfelt stories about working-class characters of Mexican descent are razor-laced narratives that cut holes in prevailing literary archetypes and social stereotypes. . . . Granados's succinct and sharply worded prose hits the reader multiple times through her narrative's grounding in social realism.
--Western American Literature
Granados's characters' voices ring true in these peeks into everyday life on the Texas-Mexico border.
--Booklist
