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The Border is Burning - by Ito Romo (Paperback)

Name: The Border is Burning - by Ito Romo (Paperback)
Brand: University of New Mexico Press
SKU: 1009237173
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2013 Southwest Books of the YearLoners, families, fathers, wives--anyone who lives on the border between Mexico and the United States also lives on a border of violence and complexity.
About the Author: Ito Romo teaches literature and creative writing at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas.
102 Pages
Fiction + Literature Genres, Short Stories (single author)

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About the Book

Loners, families, fathers, wives--anyone who lives on the border between Mexico and the United States also lives on a border of violence and complexity. Here a master of Chicano noir explores that world in lean and haunting stories that you will never forget.

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2013 Southwest Books of the Year

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The Border is Burning is a ferocious portrait of San Antonio and Laredo and the landscape in between. Filled with desperation and despair, told in sparse, gritty language and dialogue that is remarkable for its authenticity, Ito Romo's stories are like scenes suddenly flashed in a lightning storm, sharp and brilliant, like shards of glass on a highway. These stories will be compared to Raymond Carver, but their true lineage is from Juan Rulfo. Without any sentimentality, yet written with a lot of heart, Ito Romo takes us to the belly of the beast.--Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street

Romo's short stories cut the reader like a knife. His dark and authentic vision of life along the border captures the gritty reality of social relations in the era of free trade and narco economics. There are no innocents on either side of the U.S./Mexico divide. Everyone is implicated in the exchange of drugs, love, guns, grace, and bodily fluids. Romo's riveting gothic prose is a fresh iteration of Latino noir, the perfect antidote to the saccharine-sweet convention of minority fiction, firmly placing him in the company of John Rechy and Junot Díaz.--María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, author of The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development

About the Author

Ito Romo teaches literature and creative writing at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas. He is the author of El Puente / The Bridge (UNM Press).

Specifications

Dimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 5.0 Inches (W) x .25 Inches (D)

Weight: .27 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 102

Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres

Sub-Genre: Short Stories (single author)

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Format: Paperback

Author: Ito Romo

Language: English

Street Date: September 1, 2023

TCIN: 1009237173

UPC: 9780826365668

Item Number (DPCI): 247-48-4022

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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