Hotel Juárez
Subtitle: stories, rooms and loops
By: Daniel Chacón
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9781558857681
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: American Short stories
Work titles: Short stories
Description: In this collection of short and flash fiction, Daniel Chacon 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."
Table of contents: title: Part I : The purple crayon.; title: Broca's area ;; title: Between the trees ;; title: Camera obscura ;; title: Tasty chicken ;; title: Cherry auction ;; title: The first cold ;; title: Cats ;; title: Dog ;; title: Birds ;; title: The new math -- -- Part II : Mais, je suis chicano!.; title: An American in spite of himself ;; title: Dallas cowboy ;; title: Green-eyed girl on the cover of National Geopraphic ;; title: How observation changes the phenomenon ;; title: The story of tender ;; title: ¡Centinela¡ ¡centinela¡ what a night? ;; title: The most beautiful book -- -- Part III : Juarez is burning.; title: Clairaudience ;; title: Sabado gigante ;; title: Exegesis ;; title: Leeky's birthday ;; title: Mujeres matadas -- -- Part IV :; title: The the.; title: The Michael Carver ;; title: The farmer's apprentice ;; title: The first time he heard her giggle ;; title: The spiders (a koan...kind of) ;; title: The puppy ;; title: The things ;; title: The lady in the plaza -- -- Part V : Hotel Juarez.; title: Avenida Juarez ;; title: 16 de Septiembre ;; title: The best tortas, ever! ;; title: 14 ;; title: Piedra ;; title: Hollister 22 ;; title: 3 stupid dogs ;; title: Let the dead bury the dead ;; title: Poet warrior of the night ;; title: 322.