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“Terrific stories…Just about perfect” (Entertainment Weekly): Brownsville is the collection that established Oscar Casares as one of the leading voices in the literature of the modern Southwest.
In his sparkling debut, Oscar Casares creates a cast of unforgettable characters confronting everyday possibilities and contradictions: Diego, an eleven-year-old whose job at a fireworks stand teaches him a lesson in defiance; Bony, a young man whose discovery of a monkey’s head on his lawn drives a wedge between him and his parents; Lola, whose stolen bowling ball offers an unlikely chance for change. The achievement of Brownsville lies in its remarkably honest portrayal of these lives — the lives of people whose dreams and yearnings and regrets are at once unique and universal.
“Marvelous…Brownsville resembles early Steinbeck work more than anything else.” –Carolyn See, Washington Post
- On Sale
- Dec 14, 2008
- Page Count
- 208 pages
- Publisher
- Back Bay Books
- ISBN-13
- 9780316055178
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