![]() ![]() At the same time though, these stories are distinctly modern. ![]() ![]() The stories are magical, they are full of ghosts, again and again they call back to Mexico, to mothers and grandmothers and the stories they tell. “At their essence, Gurba’s stories break from tradition precisely at the moments that they tie themselves to it. and partly in Mexico, this is lush, dark storytelling with a bit of a chill to it.” -Book Riot Unforgettable characters inhabit these cross-border tales filled with introspection and longing, as modern sensibilities weave and wind through traditional folktales creating a new kind of magical realism that offers insights into where we come from and where we may be going. ![]() A Polish grandfather spends the night in a Mexican graveyard after a Día de Muertos celebration to discover if ghosts really do consume the food that has been left for them (“Even This Title Is a Ghost”). A Mexican grandmother tells creepy yet fascinating ghost stories to her granddaughters as a way to make them sit still (“How Some Abuelitas Keep Their Chicana Granddaughters Still So That They Can Paint Their Portraits in Winter”). In this artfully crafted collection of new short stories by award-winning author Myriam Gurba, nothing is as it seems on the surface. ![]()
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