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Gay young Latinos are at the center of this quiet, passionate collection in the Latino Voices series. Some of the best stories are about family secrets, but it's not the usual shame-about-coming-out stuff. In "Good as Yesterday," a young woman drives her teenage brother to the detention center to visit the man who has had sex with them both, and it's her nurturing of her brother that's the strongest bond. In "By the Time You Get There, by the Time You Get Back," a man in L.A. must beg money from his successful gay son to travel back home to Mexico to visit a dying relative: Will the father repeat the lies he always tells in Mexico about his son's beautiful Anglo wife? Several stories are sharp vignettes about class: "Hombres" contrasts a desperate young waiter with the privileged diners who flirt with him. Sometimes the meditative detail goes on too long, but Munoz brings you very close to border crossings in family and community. Hazel Rochman
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"One of the delights of fiction is its ability to take us to places we had never imagined. Manuel Muñoz writes with lightning in his pen, and he has taken us deep into the heart of a troubling, blessed place. Eerie and erotic, mysterious and true, Zigzagger puts Muñoz head and shoulders above much of what passes as "Latino fiction" today. Highly recommended." --Luis Alberto Urrea, author of Six Kinds of Sky
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Gay young Latinos are at the center of this quiet, passionate collection in the Latino Voices series. Some of the best stories are about family secrets, but it's not the usual shame-about-coming-out stuff. In "Good as Yesterday," a young woman drives her teenage brother to the detention center to visit the man who has had sex with them both, and it's her nurturing of her brother that's the strongest bond. In "By the Time You Get There, by the Time You Get Back," a man in L.A. must beg money from his successful gay son to travel back home to Mexico to visit a dying relative: Will the father repeat the lies he always tells in Mexico about his son's beautiful Anglo wife? Several stories are sharp vignettes about class: "Hombres" contrasts a desperate young waiter with the privileged diners who flirt with him. Sometimes the meditative detail goes on too long, but Munoz brings you very close to border crossings in family and community. Hazel Rochman
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Review
"One of the delights of fiction is its ability to take us to places we had never imagined. Manuel Muñoz writes with lightning in his pen, and he has taken us deep into the heart of a troubling, blessed place. Eerie and erotic, mysterious and true, Zigzagger puts Muñoz head and shoulders above much of what passes as "Latino fiction" today. Highly recommended." --Luis Alberto Urrea, author of Six Kinds of Sky
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"Sweet, moody, sexy, cruel. Stories told with such tenderness, they leave
you with your heart aching." -Sandra Cisneros, author of Caramelo and The House on Mango Street
you with your heart aching." -Sandra Cisneros, author of Caramelo and The House on Mango Street
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