SAN ANGELO, Texas (Concho Valley Homepage) — After nearly three hours of deliberation, a jury has determined sentencing for the man found guilty of killing a Marine and assaulting two other service members during a fight at the Whiskey River Saloon in 2022. On April 10, Ray Vera was sentenced to life in prison for […]
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Natasha Gilmore, Idlewild Books and Open Borders Books, NYC
: This book contains two novellas and some short stories set around Colombia (and occasionally Miami). The narration is often low-affect, sharply cynical, and wryly observed. There’s a cutting honesty in the voice throughout the book that feels totally absent from so much literature now. It reminded me of the feeling of encountering something truly when I was a teenager. But then there’s just the crushing reality of coming into sexuality as a teen, colorism and racism in Colombia, the restlessness wrought by capitalism and the desire to flee yourself and the accidents of your birth that ultimately coalesce into something so universally resonant, that will make any reader feel seen and connected. Truly an author worthy of attention.
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