The eighth continent and other stories
By: by Alba Ambert.
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Houston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Description: Focusing on the persistence of personal memory amid political and historical upheaval, the tales in The Eighth Continent portray the impact of the broad political and historical events on individual lives, success in the face of low expectations and the humor that redeems everyday struggles.

Populating the stories are engrossing individuals: underground revolutionaries faced with fear of betrayal; a woman who looks back at a massacre she witnessed as a child and the wrenching consequences of this event on her life; a linguist who makes a dangerous trip to a tropical island and finds a language on the verge of extinction; and a young woman in a mental hospital who challenges our perceptions of truth and lies, sanity and insanity.
Table of contents: title: The eighth continent; title: Dusks; title: Chupacabras, the goat sucker; title: The wound; title: Letters to Mrs. Woods; title: The old language; title: The curse; title: Rage is a fallen angel; title: "You ain't Black, you ain't white, you ain't shit."