Kafka in a Skirt, Stories from the Wall

- Authors
- Daniel Chacón
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press
- Tags
- fic029000 fiction , short stories (single author) , fic019000 fiction , literary , fic056000 fiction , hispanic & latino
- Date
- 2019-10-29
- Size
- 0.44 MB
- Lang
- en
This is not your ordinary short story collection. In his newest work, Daniel Chacón subverts expectation and bends the rules of reality to create stories that are intriguing, hilarious, and deeply rooted in Chicano culture. These stories explore the concept of a wall that reaches beyond our immediate thoughts of a towering physical structure. While Chacón aims to address the partition along the U.S.-Mexico border, he also uses these stories to work through the intangible walls that divide communities and individualsparticularly those who straddle multiple cultures in their daily lives.Set in El Paso and other Latinx-dominant urban spaces, Kafka in a Skirt is an immersive look into the myriad lives of the characters who inhabit these culturally diverse areas. Chacón masterfully weaves elements of the surreal and fantastic through a shining tapestry of fiction, creating moments of touching realism in contrast with scenes that are fascinatingly...