num_pages: 201
description: Valenzuela's first collection of stories in several years features Up Among the Eagles, a group of fourteen stories now published in English, and a selection of the best stories from her books Clara and Strange Things Happen Here.Up among the eagles. The censors --The snow white watchman --Cat's eye --Flea market --Legend of the self-sufficient child --Country carnival --Generous impediments float downriver --The Redtown chronicles --Up among the eagles --The attainment of knowledge --One siren or another --The blue water man --My everyday colt --Papito's story. Strange things happen here. Strange things happen here --The best shod --The gift of words --Love of animals --The verb to kill --All about suicide --The celery munchers --Vision out of the corner of one eye --Ladders to success --A story about greenery --The place of its quietude. The heretics. The door --City of the unknown --Nihil obstat --A family for Clotilde --Trial of the virgin --The son of Kermaria --The minstrels
language: English
title: Open Door Stories
titlecomplete: Open Door Stories
genres: Short Stories, Fiction, Literature
ratings_count: 23
publisher: North Point Press