In this award-winning collection of short stories, Guatemalan American Omar S. CastaƱeda uses a unique and richly textured mixture of magic realism and "attack dog fiction" to explore the wrenching conflicts of biculturality. The stories in Remember...
“My life is a nightmare of predictability,” bemoans one character in this collection of lyrically interwoven stories. Out of the banality of existence comes magical realist accounts, fantastic events and aerial lives that, through their s...
Esperanza's Abuela, her grandmother, is unmatched in her skill in weaving traditional Mayan tapestries. She has shared her gift with her granddaughter, and now they plan to sell their goods at the market. However, the birthmark on Abuela's face may s...