Drawing on his experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer and trainer, the author pens a collection of stories set in the mountains of Guatemala that reflects the tradition of magic realism and won the Iowa Award for Short Fiction. Original.
Living on the Edge contains seventeen remarkable stories by writers who served in the Peace Corps, including well-known authors such as John Coyne, John Givens, Norman Rush and Paul Theroux, as well as work by exciting emerging authors like Mark Jaco...
“The dozen short stories of An American Affair give us back a clear and accurate reflection of our own world here and now. Linked together by geographical setting and the clash of contemporary culture, they challenge our easy assumptions with ...
In his latest collection of literary fiction, Mark Brazaitis evokes with sympathy, insight, and humor the lives of characters in a small Ohio town. The ten short stories of The Incurables limn the mental landscape of people facing conditions they bel...
Winner of the Gival Press Novel Award--“What a stunning novel! Julia & Rodrigo is ambitious, deeply felt, exquisitely written, masterfully structured, and informed by a wide-ranging knowledge of the culture and politics of Guatemala… In many ways...
A grandfather reluctantly raising his seven-year-old granddaughter throws her a birthday party to which no one comes -- and she’s delighted. A former hockey player, about to become a father, suffers flashbacks to times his coach sexually abused him...