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There is a Rio Grande in heaven : stories / Ruben Reyes Jr.
Van Pelt Library PS3618.E947 T44 2024
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Reyes There
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reyes, Ruben, Jr., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Central America--Fiction.
- Central America.
- Salvadorans--Fiction.
- Salvadorans.
- Immigrants--Fiction.
- Immigrants.
- Identity (Psychology)--Fiction.
- Identity (Psychology).
- Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Genre:
- short stories.
- Psychological fiction.
- Short stories.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 221 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Mariner Books, [2024]
- Summary:
- "An ordinary man wakes one morning to discover he's a famous reggaetón star. An aging abuela slowly morphs into a marionette puppet. A struggling academic discovers the horrifying cost of becoming a Self-Made Man. In There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven, Ruben Reyes Jr. conjures strange dreamlike worlds to explore what we would do if we woke up one morning and our lives were unrecognizable. Boundaries between the past, present, and future are blurred. Menacing technology and unchecked bureaucracy cut through everyday life with uncanny dread. The characters, from mango farmers to popstars to ex-guerilla fighters to cyborgs, are forced to make uncomfortable choices--choices that not only mean life or death, but might also allow them to be heard in a world set on silencing the voices of Central Americans. Blazing with heart, humor, and inimitable style, There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven subverts everything we think we know about migration and its consequences, capturing what it means to take up a new life--whether willfully or forced--with piercing and brilliant clarity. A gifted new storyteller and trailblazing stylist, Reyes not only transports to other worlds but alerts us to the heartache and injustice of our own."--Amazon
- A debut story collection about Central American identity spans past, present and future worlds to reveal what happens when your life is no longer your own.
- Contents:
- An alternate history of El Salvador or perhaps the world
- He eats his own
- Try again
- An alternate history of El Salvador or perhaps the world
- The myth of the self-made man
- Quier Perrear! and other catastrophes
- My abuela, the puppet
- The Salvadoran slice of Mars
- Variations on your migrant life
- An alternate history of El Salvador or perhaps the world.
- Notes:
- Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction - Finalist, 2025
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780063336278
- 0063336278
- OCLC:
- 1450305628
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