My Chicano Heart
eBook - ePub

My Chicano Heart

New and Collected Stories of Love and Other Transgressions

  1. 182 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

My Chicano Heart

New and Collected Stories of Love and Other Transgressions

About this book

My Chicano Heart is a collection of author Daniel A. Olivas's favorite previously published tales about love, along with five new stories, that explore the complex, mysterious, and occasionally absurd machinations of people who simply want to be appreciated and treasured. Readers will encounter characters who scheme, search, and flail in settings that are sometimes fantastical and other times mundane: a man who literally gives his heart to his wife who keeps it beating safely in a wooden box; a woman who takes a long-planned trip through New Mexico but, mysteriously, without the company of her true love; a lonely man who gains a remarkably compatible roommate who may or may not be real—just to name a few of the memorable and often haunting characters who fill these pages. Olivas's richly realized stories are frequently infused with his trademark humor, and readers will delight in—and commiserate with—his lovestruck characters. 

Each story is drawn from Olivas's nearly twenty-five years of experience writing fiction deeply steeped in Chicano and Mexican culture. Some of the stories are fanciful and full of magic, while others are more realistic, and still others border on noir. All touch upon that most ephemeral and confounding of human emotions: love in all its wondrous forms.
 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. My Chicano Heart
  9. Res Judicata
  10. Quack
  11. Las Dos Fridas
  12. Painting
  13. Eight
  14. Weatherman
  15. The Fairy Tale of the Man and the Woman
  16. Mateo’s Walk
  17. Willie
  18. The Jew of Dos Cuentos
  19. Blue
  20. La Guaca
  21. Voir Dire
  22. Sight
  23. Tabula Rasa
  24. San Diego
  25. La Diabla at the Farm
  26. Real Time
  27. Lucky Dog
  28. Yahrzeit
  29. New Mexico
  30. El Padre
  31. Kind of Blue
  32. The Lost Soul of Humberto Reyes
  33. Diplopia
  34. An Interview with Love
  35. Miles
  36. The Annotated Obituary of Alejandra López de la Calle
  37. New Year
  38. Nacho
  39. Permissions and Source Acknowledgments
  40. About the Author