This engrosing historical novel traces the growth of California from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries by following in the development of the Simons Brick Factory. With an attention to historical reality blended with myth and legend, the prol...
Alejandro Morales's second novel, originally issued in Spanish as La verdad sin voz, is a fictionalized account of an idealistic young doctor's attempts to improve the lives of the Chicano residents of Mathis, Texas, in the early 1970s....
A mysterious plague is decimating the population of colonial Mexico. One of His Majesty’s highest physicians is dispatched from Spain to bring the latest advances in medical science to the backward peoples of the New World capital. Here begins ...
When Robert Contreras attempts to enlist to fight in World War II, his medical examination reveals that he has tuberculosis, and he is committed to a frightful sanatorium. Amid his relapses and recoveries he meets a series of women who have a profoun...
Joseph and Walter Simons are ambitious entrepreneurs who, in the late nineteenth century, launch the Simons Brick Factory in Southern California. With the help of a Mexican who teaches them everything he knows about making bricks, the brothers build ...
Three provocative plays by Cuban-American dramatist Alejandro Morales. Mixing gothic horror, humor and Lorquian homages, this collection is a bold look at new US Latino drama's possibilities. Prefaced by interview with award-winning playwright Carida...
The West was a place where anything was possible, and Los Angeles was the heart of that promise. Alejandro Morales introduces two very different families and an unpredictable river to explore the allure of Southern California and the history of Los A...
I'm sick of you punks, Micaela said. And I m warning you now. I'm going to get you for that murder! In the title story, the Latino community in East L.A. suffers horrible gang-related violence. Children are killed in the crossfire and young people us...
Who is Mr. Wilson? Is he a prophet? Is he a mad man? Thomas Wilson (aka Mr. Wilson) has captivated the attention of the world with the bizzare deaths of several women that he responsible for. Mr. Wilson tells us his story in front of a worldwide audi...
""Vengeance is Mine, I will repay says the Lord" Romans 12:19Just when he thought the nightmare was over, Alejandro is rudely awakened by the truth. His previous actions have set forth a wave of violence aimed towards himself and"...
Tia Chucha Press is honored to announce The Place of the White Heron, our first novel after thirty-four years of publishing poetry collections and anthologies. By renowned Chicano writer and scholar Alejandro Morales, the book is a parable for t...