On a NASA Flight to Heaven - by D Seth Horton (Paperback)

About the Book

"Set throughout the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, the stories in On a NASA Flight to Heaven explore the various ways in which the border fractures traditional narratives. Standing between North American and Latin American literary traditions, these stories are highly speculative in their approach. In "The Gospel According to Gabriel," a man and the incarnation of his God together confront their own limitations on the streets of Tijuana. A fake historical document about a nonexistent, nineteenth-century religious text centers "Gertrudis Guzmâan's The Great, Great Book of the Republic of Beautiful Deserts." And in "On a NASA Flight to Heaven," the daughter of a cartel boss escapes her fate on the back of what might or might not be a hallucinated fantasy. By consistently blurring together the genres of fiction and nonfiction, and by furthermore resisting all gestures towards completeness and finality, this collection of stories offers a completely novel interpretation of the borderlands"--

Book Synopsis

Set throughout the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, the stories in On a NASA Flight to Heaven explore the various ways in which the border fractures traditional narratives. Standing between North American and Latin American literary traditions, these stories are highly speculative in their approach. In "The Gospel According to Gabriel," a man and the incarnation of his God together confront their own limitations on the streets of Tijuana. A fake historical document about a nonexistent, nineteenth-century religious text centers "Gertrudis Guzmán's The Great, Great Book of the Republic of Beautiful Deserts." And in "On a NASA Flight to Heaven," the daughter of a cartel boss escapes her fate on the back of what might or might not be a hallucinated fantasy. By consistently blurring together the genres of fiction and nonfiction, and by furthermore resisting all gestures towards completeness and finality, this collection of stories offers a completely novel interpretation of the borderlands.

Review Quotes

"In clean, needle-sharp prose, Horton takes the reader on a harrowing tour of the borderland of the American psyche, a surreal place where humor can change to horror in the blink of an eye. Spare, prickly and hallucinatory, like the desert itself, these stories pulse with a quiet menace. They stay with you like aborted dreams, all the more haunting and enchanting for slipping away with more to say."

-James Terry, Author of Kingdom of the Sun and The Solitary Woman of Shakespeare

"D. Seth Horton's wild flight through the borderlands will leave you reeling with its meta twists and ductile turns. A trip not for the faint of heart."

--José Skinner, Author of Flight and Other Stories and The Tombstone Race

"Horton's meta/postmodern take on storytelling is at once highly readable and formally inventive."

-Aurelie Sheehan, Author of Once Into the Night and Demigods on Speedway