A series of linked stories following the members of a large Latinx family exploring the pressure points of familial obligations and the complexities of love.
From the author of Malas comes a short story collection that centers the challenges of family, with characters constantly trying to navigate a web of allegiances and seeking breathing space for themselves. A young boy from the barrio settles a wager his dead father made with a rich man. A sister tries to make sense of her brother’s career as a bull rider. A group of kids searches for the bogeyman haunting their grandmother’s house. A suburban wife aches to understand her volatile husband.
All these individual’s dreams, desires, and fears swirl together to form a portrait of a Latinx family—one that’s imperfect and difficult but truer to life than any one perspective could be.
Marcela Fuentes is an award-winning fiction writer and essayist. Her work has appeared in the Indiana Review, Texas Highways, Ploughshares, and other journals. Her debut novel, Malas, was a Good Morning America Book Club pick for June 2024, and was longlisted for the 2024 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her linked story collection, My Heart Has More Rooms Than a Whorehouse is forthcoming from Viking. She lives in Fort Worth, Texas.
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A series of linked stories following the members of a large Latinx family exploring the pressure points of familial obligations and the complexities of love.
From the author of Malas comes a short story collection that centers the challenges of family, with characters constantly trying to navigate a web of allegiances and seeking breathing space for themselves. A young boy from the barrio settles a wager his dead father made with a rich man. A sister tries to make sense of her brother’s career as a bull rider. A group of kids searches for the bogeyman haunting their grandmother’s house. A suburban wife aches to understand her volatile husband.
All these individual’s dreams, desires, and fears swirl together to form a portrait of a Latinx family—one that’s imperfect and difficult but truer to life than any one perspective could be.
Marcela Fuentes is an award-winning fiction writer and essayist. Her work has appeared in the Indiana Review, Texas Highways, Ploughshares, and other journals. Her debut novel, Malas, was a Good Morning America Book Club pick for June 2024, and was longlisted for the 2024 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her linked story collection, My Heart Has More Rooms Than a Whorehouse is forthcoming from Viking. She lives in Fort Worth, Texas.
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