Review: My Favorite of the Spanish Mustang Tales (So Far)
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 11, 2012
This is the third piece I've read from Benjamin X. Wretlind's Sketches from the Spanish Mustang and it is my favorite so far. Wretlind is a masterful story-teller and as I mentioned in my review of another of his stories, he is particularly skillful at creating living, breathing (and, in this case, puking) characters. I an convinced that if I ever travel to a particular small town in Colorado I will find Dan Chappose. It is that authenticity that makes the reader feel so strongly for Wretlind's characters. In each of his stories that I have read I genuinely care about what is happening to the people I'm reading about. This is no small feat for an author, particularly in a novella-length work.I cannot recommend this or any of Wretlind's writings more highly. He is a unique American voice and--I do not exaggerate here--a Pulitzer-caliber writer who deserves more recognition.