Hotel Juárez Stories Rooms and Loops edition by Daniel Chacón Literature Fiction eBooks
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In this collection of short and flash fiction, Daniel Chacón examines peoples’ interactions with each other, the impact of identity and the importance of literature, art and music. In one story, a girl remembers her father, who taught her to love books and libraries. “A book can whisper at you, call at you from the shelves. Sometimes a book can find you. Seek you out and ask you to come and play,” he told her. Years later, she finds herself pulling an assortment from the shelves, randomly reading passages from different books and entering into the landscapes as if each book were a wormhole. Somehow one excerpt seems to be a continuation of another, connecting in the way that birds do when they fly from a tree to the roof of a house, making “an idea, a connection, a tree-house.”
Misconceptions about people, the responsibility of the artist and conflicts about identity pepper these stories that take place in the U.S. and abroad. In “Mais, Je Suis Chicano,” a Mexican American living in Paris identifies himself as Chicano, rather than American. “It’s not my fault I was born on the U.S. side of the border,” he tells a French Moroccan woman when she discovers that he really is American, a word she says “as if it could be replaced with murderer or child molester.”
Many of the stories are very short and contain images that flash in the reader’s mind, loop back and connect to earlier ones. Other stories are longer, like rooms, into which Chacón invites the reader to enter, look around and hang out. And some are more traditional. But whether short or long, conventional or experimental, the people in these pieces confront issues of imagination and self. In “Sábado Gigante,” a young boy who is “as big as a gorilla” must face his best friend’s disappointment that—in spite of his size—he’s a terrible athlete, and even more confounding, he prefers playing dolls to baseball. Whether in Paris or Ciudad Juárez, Chacón reveals his characters at their most vulnerable in these powerful and rewarding stories, anti-stories and loops.
Hotel Juárez Stories Rooms and Loops edition by Daniel Chacón Literature Fiction eBooks
This is an excellent collection of short stories by one of the best writers of contemporary Chicano fiction. I highly recommend it!Product details
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Hotel Juárez Stories Rooms and Loops edition by Daniel Chacón Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Hotel Juarez is a colorful glimpse to life in El Paso. Its smoothness makes it an enjoyable read that made me forget about the noise that surrounds the border, and with its more than vivid characters I almost felt like I was been spoken directly to.
I'm reading this for school. It's a series of short stories, and flash fiction. It can seem disjointed in places because there is no common thread weaving its way through the narrative. Overall though, it's an enjoyable read.
This is an excellent collection of short stories by one of the best writers of contemporary Chicano fiction. I highly recommend it!
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