There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven
eBook - ePub

There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven

Stories

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven

Stories

About this book

Longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award • Finalist for The Story Prize • Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction • Finalist for the California Book Award • Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the New American Voices Award

"Ruben Reyes Jr. is a wonder." — Héctor Tobar

An electrifying debut speculative fiction story collection about Central American identity that spans past, present, and future worlds to reveal what happens when your life is no longer your own.

An ordinary man wakes one morning to discover he's a famous reggaetĂłn star. An aging abuela slowly morphs into a marionette puppet. A struggling academic discovers the horrifying cost of becoming a Self-Made Man.

In There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven, Ruben Reyes Jr. conjures strange, dreamlike, and surreal worlds to explore what we would do if we woke up one morning and our lives were unrecognizable. Boundaries between the past, present, and future are blurred. Menacing technology and unchecked bureaucracy cut through everyday life with uncanny dread. The characters, from mango farmers to popstars to ex-guerilla fighters to cyborgs, are forced to make uncomfortable choices—choices that not only mean life or death, but might also allow them to be heard in a world set on silencing the voices of Central Americans.

Blazing with heart, humor, and inimitable style, There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven subverts everything we think we know about migration and its consequences, capturing what it means to take up a new life—whether willfully or forced—with piercing and brilliant clarity. A gifted new storyteller and trailblazing stylist, Reyes not only transports to other worlds but alerts us to the heartache and injustice of our own.

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Information

Publisher
Mariner Books
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9780063336414
Print ISBN
9780063336308
Subtopic
Literature General

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Contents
  6. An Alternate History of El Salvador or Perhaps the World
  7. He Eats His Own
  8. Try Again
  9. An Alternate History of El Salvador or Perhaps the World
  10. The Myth of the Self-Made Man
  11. Quiero Perrear! and Other Catastrophes
  12. An Alternate History of El Salvador or Perhaps the World
  13. My Abuela, the Puppet
  14. The Salvadoran Slice of Mars
  15. An Alternate History of El Salvador or Perhaps the World
  16. Variations on Your Migrant Life
  17. An Alternate History of El Salvador or Perhaps the World
  18. Acknowledgments
  19. About the Author
  20. About Mariner Books
  21. Copyright
  22. About the Publisher

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