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Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
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A collection of essays that focuses on identity, grief and home through a pop culture lens, Villarreal looks to our favorite movies, music and more to map her personal history.
Longlisted for the National Book Award
Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
Shortlisted for the 2025 Housatonic Book Award for Nonfiction
Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award in Memoir
A brilliant, singular collection of essays that looks to music, fantasy, and pop culture—from Beyoncé to Game of Thrones—to excavate and reimagine what has been disappeared by migration and colonialism.
Upon becoming a new mother, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal was call...
Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
Shortlisted for the 2025 Housatonic Book Award for Nonfiction
Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award in Memoir
A brilliant, singular collection of essays that looks to music, fantasy, and pop culture—from Beyoncé to Game of Thrones—to excavate and reimagine what has been disappeared by migration and colonialism.
Upon becoming a new mother, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal was call...
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