Hotel Juárez : stories, rooms and loops / Daniel Chacón.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chacón, Daniel.

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

Genre:

Short stories.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Place of Publication:

Houston, Texas : Arte Público Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this collection of short and flash fiction, Daniel Chacón examines peoples' interactions with each other, the impact of identity and the importance of literature, art and music. In one story, a girl remembers her father, who taught her to love books and libraries. "A book can whisper at you, call at you from the shelves. Sometimes a book can find you. Seek you out and ask you to come and play," he told her. Years later, she finds herself pulling an assortment from the shelves, randomly reading passages from different books and entering into the landscapes as if each book were a wormhole. Somehow one excerpt seems to be a continuation of another, connecting in the way that birds do when they fly from a tree to the roof of a house, making "an idea, a connection, a tree-house."Many of the stories are very short and contain images that flash in the reader's mind, loop back and connect to earlier ones. Other stories are longer, like rooms, into which Chacón invites the reader to enter, look around and hang out. And some are more traditional. But whether short or long, conventional or experimental, the people in these pieces confront issues of imagination and self. Whether in Paris or Ciudad Juárez, Chacón reveals his characters at their most vulnerable in these powerful and rewarding stories, anti-stories and loops.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Part I The Purple Crayon""; ""Broca�s Area""; ""Between the Trees""; ""Camera Obscura""; ""Tasty Chicken""; ""Cherry Auction""; ""The First Cold""; ""Cats""; ""Dog""; ""Birds""; ""The New Math""; ""Part II Mais, Je Suis Chicano!""; ""An American in Spite of Himself""; ""Dallas Cowboy""; ""Green-eyed Girl on the Cover of National Geographic""; ""How Observation Changes the Phenomenon""; ""The Story of Tender""; ""¡Centinela! ¡Centinela! What of the Night?""; ""The Most Beautiful Book""; ""Part III Juárez Is Burning""; ""Clairaudience""; ""Sábado Gigante""; ""Exegesis""

""Leeky�s Birthday""""Mujeres Matadas""; ""Part IV The The""; ""The Michael Carver""; ""The Framer�s Apprentice""; ""The First Time He Heard Her Giggle""; ""The Spiders (a koan . . . kind of)""; ""The Puppy""; ""The Things""; ""The Lady in the Plaza""; ""Part V Hotel Juárez""; ""Avenida Juárez""; ""16 de Septiembre""; ""The Best Tortas, Ever!""; ""14""; ""Piedra""; ""Hollister 22""; ""3 Stupid Dogs""; ""Let the Dead Bury the Dead""; ""Poet Warrior of the Night""; ""322""; ""Also by Daniel Chacón""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61192-517-7