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Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America Paperback – March 1, 2010

by Robert Shapard (Editor), James Thomas (Editor), Ray Gonzales (Editor),
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For readers who love great short-short stories, this bountiful anthology is the best of Latin American and U.S. Latino writers.

Following on the success of the Flash Fiction and Sudden Fiction series, Robert Shapard and James Thomas join with Ray Gonzalez in selecting works that each present a complete story in less than 1,500 words. Luisa Valenzuela, one of Latin America’s most lauded writers, provides the introduction. Readers will delight in finding stars such as Junot Díaz, Sandra Cisneros, and Roberto Bolano alongside recognized masters like Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, and Jorge Luis Borges. They will discover work from Andrea Saenz, Daniel Alarcón, and Alicita Rodriguez, as well as other writers on the rise.

In Julio Ortega’s “Migrations,” a Peruvian writer explores how immigrant speech and ethnic origins are a force of meaning that evolves beyond language. In “Hair,” by Hilma Contreras, a Caribbean pharmacist is driven mad by a young woman’s luxuriant tresses. These stories stretch from gritty reality to the fantastical in a mix that is moving, challenging, humorous, artful, sometimes political, and altogether spectacular.
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Starred Review. After the Sudden Fiction and Flash Fiction anthologies, editors Shapard and Thomas teamed with Gonzalez to create this stunning compilation of short shorts (under 1,500 words) by venerated and emerging Latino writers. In Andrea Saenz's Everyone's Abuelo Can't Have Ridden with Pancho Villa, the narrator's Grandma Jefa discredits the family legends while holding fast to her own: a prescient dream about the assassination of Bobby Kennedy. Luna Calderon writes about Dia de Los Muertos or, as the social studies teacher in her story calls it, Day Ah Dallas Mare Toes. In Imagining Bisbee, Alicita Rodriguez recounts the making of a ghost town: Bisbee's inhabitants want to disappear. They use P.O. boxes and first names. They hide under straw mats and melt into the horizon. In Miss Clairol, Helena María Viramontes describes the transformative makeup ritual of a mother: The only way Champ knows her mother's true hair color is by her roots, which, like death, inevitably rise to the truth. The spirited mix of writers also includes Junot Díaz, Sandra Cisneros, Gabriel García Márquez, and Jorge Luis Borges. (Mar.)
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Robert Shapard directed the University of Hawaii MFA program and now lives in Austin, Texas.

James Thomas, coeditor of all the Flash Fiction anthologies, lives in Xenia, Ohio.

Ray Gonzalez is one of America’s foremost authors, scholars, and editors in Latino literature.

Luisa Valenzuela was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1938. In 1958, she moved to France and wrote her first novel while living in Paris. In 1979, she moved to the United States and lived in New York for ten years, working as a writer in residence at the Center for Inter-American Relations at NYU and Columbia. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1983.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition (March 1, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 039333645X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393336450
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.3 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Pedro Ponce

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Pedro Ponce is the author of The Devil and the Dairy Princess: Stories (Indiana University Press, 2021), winner of the Don Belton Fiction Prize and a finalist for the 2021 Big Other Book Award for Fiction. He is also the author of Alien Autopsy, a collection of flash fiction that received honorable mention in the 2011 Dactyl Review Award contest, and Superstitions of Apartment Life, which won the 2008 Burnside Review Fiction Chapbook Competition. In 2012, he received a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His stories have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including Ploughshares, Alaska Quarterly Review, Gigantic, PANK, Copper Nickel, New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, Boundaries Without: The Calumet Editions 2017 Anthology of Speculative Fiction, and Best Small Fictions 2019.

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Alyssa M. Madrigal
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Short Stories
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2014
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I love how the stories come from various Latin countries and authors with different backgrounds. The selection of stories is just right and each one complements another.
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Quick stories but no loss of impact!
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Lauryn Womack
5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyed the other stories as well
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2016
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My uncle wrote one of the stories in this particular book. Enjoyed the other stories as well.
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Suhk Madiq
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The content of this book really sucked.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Multipurpose Anthology
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2010
I received this book through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers group and was impressed by the interesting form and the variety of authors. It's a collection of 'sudden' or short-short fiction (with pieces ranging from a couple of hundred words to a few pages; this is a subgenre the editors refer to as 'flash' fiction in their similarly brief introduction) and I can imagine the book lending itself to various uses... 1) It could be a fun addition to a college literature course, as it offers brief morsels by well-known and also newer writers. It might also be useful to teachers since each selection is short enough to be read, silently or aloud, during even the shortest class session, still leaving ample time for lecture, discussion, or other activities. 2) The book might also work nicely (as another LibraryThing reviewer noted) for commuters. A person might as well enjoy a quick bit of brain candy while sitting on or waiting for that subway car, bus or train. To make work readable in such a setting, and given that this is already such a short form to boot, the authors need to create a rich and intriguing microcosm by a very careful use of words, and many of these do. Finally, 3) if one is a fan of certain contributors and their longer writing, this collection might make a good gift for friend who hasn't yet had an introduction to those authors or their longer works. The super-short form works well for little glimpses of anything from 'magical realism' to postmodernism, and a collection like this one might hook a reader's imagination enough to make them hungry for a full-sized meal.

Borges' "The Book of Sand," Rudolfo Anaya's "The Native Lawyer," Roberto Bolano's "The Phone Call" and Ana Castillo's "The Foreign Market" were memorable for me; Antonio Farias' " Red Serpent Ceviche" made me excited to pick up his first novel, and Ana Maria Shua's "3 Microstories" made me want to track down the rest of her work, including a film adaptation.

In short, this seems a satisfying collection overall, and particularly well-suited for students, commuters, and the curious.
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Jennifer Smith-Mojica
2.0 out of 5 stars Required reading
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2023
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I didn’t enjoy reading this. It was many different stories from different authors. Short stories. Some are okay. Some are really out there.
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Beantown
3.0 out of 5 stars Incomplete representation of US Latinos
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2010
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I am putting together a syllabus for a summer course in contemporary Latino literature and was highly disappointed to find that this book did not provide diversity in writing - eg the only Puerto Rican included was Coefer - whose piece entitled "volar" was beautiful but a wopping 2 pages short. Most pieces in this collection are riddled with cursing, sex, negative imagery - the same old same old internalized crap .... and I need to offer my students much more than that!
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Janine
5.0 out of 5 stars Schnelle Lieferung, tolles Buch!
Reviewed in Germany on February 19, 2019
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Ich habe dieses Buch für ein Seminar in der Uni gekauft. Die Lieferung erfolgte zügig und das Buch befand sich in einem guten gebrauchten Zustand. Es wurde nichts hereingeschrieben, markiert oder sonstiges. Super Zustand!
Die Kurzgeschichten sind alle sehr interessant - lohnt sich, mal reinzuschauen!
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