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The great writer Sandra Cisnero says that the stories in this debut collection “blaze like wildfire.” She’s right. Fajado-Anstine writes about women of the American West, most often Latinx and/or Indigenous in background. All are struggling, whether with financial woes or family concerns, but each has a powerful and riveting tale to tell. You’ll cheer as the characters, mostly female, attempt to free themselves from the violence, misogyny, and racism of their families’ histories, often with grace and humor. It’s an added bonus that the stories are read by a variety of women narrators, bringing to life the multitude of female voices the book encompasses.
The Rock Eaters Explores The Boundaries Of Emotion, Possibility And Longing knpr.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from knpr.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Brenda Peynado wastes no time in yanking her reader into her stories – and into the burning issues that consume her. Her debut collection,
The Rock Eaters, demonstrate this superbly. Thoughts and Prayers and The Radioactives are the two tales that bookend
The Rock Eaters, and they kick off and conclude the collection with punchy yet lingering impact.
The opening of Thoughts and Prayers instantly magnetizes the topic of school shootings by folding in the presence of eerie angels with human faces and the bodies of birds; the opening of The Radioactives mashes immigration and farfetched technology into a deconstructed superhero narrative one that stirs the soul with justice and rage. Just as spectacularly, Thoughts and Prayers is a fantasy story, while The Radioactives is science fiction and within that bracket of genres, the author wields a righteous voice that s as frank as it is dreamlike.