{"product_id":"new-testaments-stories-9780872869318","title":"New Testaments: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn NPR Best Book of the Year!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStories of working-class Mexican America, penned by one of the contemporary legends of Chicanx literature.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Gilb's familiar signature intimacy brings us face to face with marginal housing, gritty and exhausting jobs, street people, sex, earthquakes, fouled air, physical handicaps, racism. . . . Some of the stories are sidewinders: at first they indicate layers of something juicy and sweet but turn out to pierce the reader with painful splinters of insight.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eAnnie Proulx, author of\u003cem\u003e \"Brokeback Mountain\"\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Shipping News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDagoberto Gilb's latest cast of characters includes a young family whose exposure to a mysterious cloud of gas alters their lives forever; a high school dropout whose choice to learn the ways of the world from the adults at work leads him into a dangerous dalliance; a former high-rise carpenter who meets up with an eager old flame; an aging Chicano, living alone, whose children watch over him for signs of decline; and more. Gilb's distinct narrative voice offers his readers a warm welcome as he peels back the surface of everyday life to seamlessly guide us into realms of of myth and fable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDagoberto Gilb\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of eleven books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Magic of Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Known Residence of Mickey Acu?a\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWoodcuts of Women\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGritos\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Flowers\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBefore the End, After the Beginning\u003c\/i\u003e. In October 2024, two new books by Gilb will be published: \u003cem\u003eA Passing West: Essays from the Borderland\u003c\/em\u003e with the University of New Mexico Press, and \u003cem\u003eNew Testaments: Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, with City Lights Publishers. Among his honors are the PEN\/Hemingway Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Whiting Writers Award. His work has been a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle and PEN\/Faulkner Awards and has been honored several times in Texas as a proud part of its literary tradition. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eO'Henry Prize Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and much of it widely reprinted in textbooks. He is the founder of \u003ci\u003eHuizache\u003c\/i\u003e, a groundbreaking literary magazine that features Latino writing. Born and raised in Los Angeles by his Mexican mother, he now lives in both Austin and Mexico City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50878293639442,"sku":"9780872869318","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a96ada93-84d6-44b1-9c92-a49f22df71ea.jpg?v=1738278127","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/new-testaments-stories-9780872869318","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}