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The River Runs: Stories
Thomas Ray Garcia's debut short story collection reimagines the Texas-Mexico border as a site of belonging and becoming. These 11 stories feature characters facing the realities of living alongside a river running through their countries, communities, and cultures.

Along the Rio Grande, river crossings lead to cross country runs and astral projections. A pregnant teenager learns about motherhood from a curandera. A scholarship boy grapples with his fronterizo identity. The sister of a border patrol agent lives in fear of deportation. A child looks into the eye of a drone and sees his family anew.

The River Runs: Stories won the Américo Paredes Literary Arts Prize for Fiction sponsored by FlowerSong Press from McAllen, Texas and Prickly Pear Publishing from Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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The River Runs: Stories
Thomas Ray Garcia's debut short story collection reimagines the Texas-Mexico border as a site of belonging and becoming. These 11 stories feature characters facing the realities of living alongside a river running through their countries, communities, and cultures.

Along the Rio Grande, river crossings lead to cross country runs and astral projections. A pregnant teenager learns about motherhood from a curandera. A scholarship boy grapples with his fronterizo identity. The sister of a border patrol agent lives in fear of deportation. A child looks into the eye of a drone and sees his family anew.

The River Runs: Stories won the Américo Paredes Literary Arts Prize for Fiction sponsored by FlowerSong Press from McAllen, Texas and Prickly Pear Publishing from Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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The River Runs: Stories

The River Runs: Stories

by Thomas Ray Garcia
The River Runs: Stories

The River Runs: Stories

by Thomas Ray Garcia

Overview

Thomas Ray Garcia's debut short story collection reimagines the Texas-Mexico border as a site of belonging and becoming. These 11 stories feature characters facing the realities of living alongside a river running through their countries, communities, and cultures.

Along the Rio Grande, river crossings lead to cross country runs and astral projections. A pregnant teenager learns about motherhood from a curandera. A scholarship boy grapples with his fronterizo identity. The sister of a border patrol agent lives in fear of deportation. A child looks into the eye of a drone and sees his family anew.

The River Runs: Stories won the Américo Paredes Literary Arts Prize for Fiction sponsored by FlowerSong Press from McAllen, Texas and Prickly Pear Publishing from Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781889568218
Publisher: Prickly Pear Publishing
Publication date: 04/05/2023
Pages: 140
Sales rank: 417,791
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)
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