How winter began
Subtitle: stories
By: Joy Castro
Series: Flyover fiction; Flyover fiction
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780803276604
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "Irene gives the wealthy businessmen what they want, diving headfirst into the filthy river, thinking only of providing for her baby daughter, Marisa, as the men salivate over her soaked body emerging onto the bank. A young boy tries to befriend the reticent younger sister of the town's cruelest bully, only to discover the family betrayal behind her quiet countenance. Josefa, a young bride, is executed for murdering the man who raped her. Joy Castro's How Winter Began traces these and other characters as they seek compassion from each other and themselves.Thematically linked by the lives of women, especially Latinas, and their experiences of poverty and violence in a white-dominated, wealth-obsessed culture, How Winter Began is a delicately wrought collection of stories. The question at the heart of this riveting book is how or whether to trust one another after the rupture of betrayal"--

"Thematically linked stories regarding concerns for female experience, Latina experience, and the experiences of poverty and violence in a white-dominant, wealth-obsessed culture, How Winter Began is a collection of stories about betrayal and the questions of when and whether to love and trust one another after the rupture of betrayal"--
Table of contents: title: A notion I took --; title: How to warp your kids --; title: Other women's jewels --; title: Giving jewel away --; title: To practice the thing --; title: Liking it rough --; title: Musing --; title: Independence Day --; title: A time of snow --; title: The small heart --; title: Bloody --; title: A place I shouldn't go --; title: The Noren --; title: The tasting --; title: A favor I did --; title: How winter began --; title: Under things --; title: Whore for a day --; title: The Pottery Barn and the foster child --; title: The cave --; title: The dream of the father --; title: Ruthless --; title: Personal effects --; title: All the time in the world --; title: A mother who means well is harder to lose --; title: Dinner --; title: The river --; title: A choice I made.