Bibliograph

Maria, Maria, and other stories, Marytza K. Rubio

Type

Label

Maria, Maria, and other stories, Marytza K. Rubio

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Maria, Maria

Oclc number

1311535814

Responsibility statement

Marytza K. Rubio

Sub title

and other stories

Summary

"For fans of Kali Fajardo-Anstine and Lesley Nneka Arimah, a darkly funny and imaginative debut conjuring tales of Mexican American mystics and misfits. "The first witch of the waters was born in Destruction. The moon named her Maria." From former PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow Marytza K. Rubio comes Maria, Maria, an inimitable collection set across the tropics and megacities of the Americas. Readers will be enticed and infuriated as characters negotiate with nature to cast their desired ends-such as the enigmatic community college professor in "Brujeria for Beginners'; the disturbingly faithful widow in "Tijuca"; and the lonely little girl in "Burial," who awakens a sabretooth tiger. Brimming with sharp wit and ferocious female intuition, the book bubbles over into a novella of fantastical proportions-a "tropigoth" family drama set in a reimagined California micro-rainforest about the legacies of three Marias, possibly all Marias. Writing in prose so lush it threatens to creep off the page, Rubio emerges as a bold voice new voice in contemporary short fiction"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Brujería for beginners -- Tijuca -- Tunnels -- Art show -- Clap if you believe -- Moksha -- Burial -- Carlos across space and time -- Paint by numbers -- Maria, Maria

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