Points of Departure: New Stories from Mexico

Points of Departure brings together seventeen Mexican authors born in the 1950s and 1960s, most of whom had never before been published in English.

Magical realism and exoticism are nowhere to be found in this collection of sophisticated, very contemporary stories. Rather, the surreal contradictions and juxtapositions of daily life in Mexico are a permeating presence. A sharp sense of irony, incongruity and hilarity pervades many of the scenarios offered here, along with an acid-tongued fata...