Full Description
MuÑoz's breakthrough collection, reissued with a new foreword by author Helena MarÍa Viramontes
Manuel MuÑoz's first collection of stories goes beyond the traditional family myths of Mexican American literature and the image of California's Central Valley as a lush world of rural tranquility, instead exploring the constant struggle of characters against their physical and personal surroundings. A teenage boy learns the consequences of succumbing to the lure of a town outsider; a young farm worker attempts to hide his supervision of a group of children from the town police; a father must expose his own secrets after his son is found murdered in a highway motel. Experiencing conflicts of family and sexuality and the pain of loss and memory, the characters in Zigzagger seek to reconcile themselves with the rural towns of their upbringing—places that, by nature, are bordered by loneliness.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
ANCHORED
Zigzagger
The Third Myth
TiburÓn
Museo de Bellas Artes
The Unimportant Lila Parr
Swallow
NO BLOOD
Campo
The Wooden Boat
Loco
By the Time You Get There, By the Time You Get Back
Anchorage
Astilla
WAITING TO BE DANGEROUS
Not Nevada
Fotito
Waiting to be Dangerous
Zapatos
Good as Yesterday
Everything the Boy Told You
THE HARBOR OF HANDS
Hombres
Skyshot
Teatro JaponÉs
Monkey, SÍ
Clima
