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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: consequences
    sub title: stories
  name:
    name part: Muñoz, Manuel
    name part: 1972-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: short story
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mnu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 181 pages ; 21 cm.
  abstract: "Her immediate concern was money." So begins the first story in Manuel Muñoz's dazzling new collection. In it, Delfina has moved from Texas to California's Central Valley with her husband and small son, and her isolation and desperation force her to take a risk that ends in profound betrayal. These exquisite stories are mostly set in the 1980s in the small towns that surround Fresno. With an unflinching hand, Muñoz depicts the Mexican and Mexican American farmworkers who put food on our tables but are regularly and ruthlessly rounded up by the migra, as well as the quotidian struggles and immense challenges faced by their families. The messy and sometimes violent realities navigated by his characters, straight and gay, immigrant and American-born, young and old, are tempered by moments of surprising, tender care. Two young women meet on a bus to Los Angeles to retrieve husbands who must find their way back from the border after being deported, a gay couple plans a housewarming party that reveals buried class tensions, a teenage mother slips out to a carnival where she encounters the father of her child, the foreman of a crew of fruit pickers finds a dead body and is subsequently, perhaps literally, haunted. In The Consequences, obligation can shape, support and sometimes derail us. It's a magnificent new book from a gifted writer at the height of his powers.
  table of contents: Anyone can do it -- The happiest girl in the whole USA -- Presumido -- Susto -- The reason is because -- The consequences -- Compromisos -- Fieldwork -- That pink house at the end of the street on the other side of town -- What kid of fool am I?
  note: Manuel Muñoz.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ca
  subject:
    topic: Mexican Americans
    geographic: California
    geographic: Central Valley
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: Central Valley (Calif.)
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Mexican American agricultural laborers
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PS3613.U69 C66 2022
  classification: 813/.6
  identifier: 9781644452066
  identifier: 1644452065
  identifier: 9781644451892
  identifier: 2022930729
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 220118
    record change date: 20230127195410.7
    record identifier: in00004643700