In this Book
- Desert sonorous: Stories
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Massachusetts Press
- Series: Juniper Prize for Fiction
summary
Undercover space aliens share an RV outside Tucson. A high school girl tries to make sense of the shooting of Gabby Giffords. Basketball fans stalk their team’s head coach. A young couple falls in and out of love over the course of several lifetimes. And teenage cross-country athletes run on and on through these ten stories set amid the strange desert landscapes of the American Southwest.
Desert sonorous is a unique and energetic debut collection, blending realism with flashes of experimentation. Contemporary issues—immigration, drought, shootings—hover above a cast of memorable characters in search of life’s deeper meanings. As they struggle along, comic and resigned, intelligent and quiet, sad and frustrated, their strivings resound because their lives are in so many ways our own.
Table of Contents
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- In the days of butchers
- pp. 1-8
- bearing down
- pp. 84-95
- Pistoleros
- pp. 96-113
- Anniversary
- pp. 114-128
- After the shootings
- pp. 129-136
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 173-177
Additional Information
ISBN
9781613763513
Related ISBN(s)
9781625341372
MARC Record
OCLC
919384398
Pages
186
Launched on MUSE
2015-09-01
Language
English
Open Access
No