Zigzagger: Stories

Muñoz’s breakthrough collection, reissued with a new foreword by author Helena María Viramontes

Manuel Muñoz’s first collection of stories goes beyond the traditional family myths of Mexican American literature and the image of California’s Central Valley as a lush world of rural tranquility, instead exploring the constant struggle of characters against their physical and personal surroundings. A teenage boy learns the consequences of succumbing to the lure of a town outsider; a young farm...