La frontera de cristal / The Crystal Frontier (Paperback)

from jonfaith

This was completed at Table 8; a section of the local public house where I spent the better part of a decade, rambling, reading and quaffing espresso and Guinness. I liked this gestalt of a story collection, its novelistic pulse crossing its own borders and checkpoints with a pessimism that can't...

from araridan

I was ordered to read this because of the fact that I am a native of Southern California. My life, and especially my childhood has been influenced by growing up so close to the San Ysidro border crossing. I lived in predominantly hispanic neighborhoods at times, ate so much Mexican food (includin...

from jonfaith

This was completed at Table 8; a section of the local public house where I spent the better part of a decade, rambling, reading and quaffing espresso and Guinness. I liked this gestalt of a story collection, its novelistic pulse crossing its own borders and checkpoints with a pessimism that can't...

from hemlokgang

Just for starters, imagine a man who conjures a different woman to devour for each course of his meal, a racist border patrol officer, a man whose lover is his daughter-in-law, and a woman thwarted in her determination to prove her theory that Mexicans are lazy. Now, add vivid and compelling pros...

from hemlokgang

Just for starters, imagine a man who conjures a different woman to devour for each course of his meal, a racist border patrol officer, a man whose lover is his daughter-in-law, and a woman thwarted in her determination to prove her theory that Mexicans are lazy. Now, add vivid and compelling pros...