The Dead Will Rise and Save Us By Paul Pedroza Paperback 9780996913 Fiction The Dead Will Rise and Save Us Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. THE DEAD WILL RISE AND SAVE US is a collection of short stories set in the border cities of El Paso/Juárez with an array of interesting characters, which range from high school students negotiating their identities, homeless characters living in the San Jacinto Plaza, characters that navigate the border between Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, and . This collection embodies life in the border in many ways, such as the bilingualism of the characters, the socio cultural elements of the settings, and the tensions between the difficulties and beauty of living in the border region. The dead will rise and save uso of 95January 2016 Themes of boundaries loneliness identity opportunity and responsibility permeate this collection of contemporary short fiction set in and around El Paso Texas Paul Pedroza possesses a versatile voice able to create a diverse cast of compelling narratives young and old male and female Anglo Mexican and Mexican American immigrants and residents and a variety of socioeconomic classes even the dead the encobijados dead bodies wrapped in blankets and dumped by narcotraficantes Pedroza is also equally at home with a variety of styles from slice of life to the fantastical The Dead Will Rise and Save Us Stories by Paul Pedroza is Pedroza s debut collection although a handful of these stories have appeared previously in publications such as New Border Voices Texas AM University Press 2014 and MAKE A Chicago Magazine Issue 12 Winter 2012 Subtle Shades of Green the first story is a standout Robert whose mother is Anglo and father was Mexican attends Bowie High School in El Paso lives in the barrio and gets into trouble inadvertently worsening the situation when he tries to stand up for his darker skinned friends who are hassled by the Border Patrol during a pickup basketball game When his friends subsequently abandon him Robert feels the constituent parts inside him beginning to pull away from one another creating boundaries not unlike the one marked by fence and river In The Way Things Are Pedroza tells the story of Emmy and Steven at a party celebrating her college graduation Steven is a carpenter and has an opportunity to move to Phoenix where building is booming Emmy has been accepted to graduate school in South Carolina Neither has told the other of their news and Pedroza s story is fraught with the tensions of class expectation misunderstanding and love s struggle to overcome Your problem is you ve got an educated woman on your hands Emmy s uncle tells Steven and that means you ain t going to have much to say my friend Pedroza relates this story seamlessly from both Emmy s and Steven s first person points of view Other standouts are a series of linked stories populated by the homeless community in downtown El Paso in which a character named Peter who watches the heavens after nightfall and the few stars peeking through man s progress tries to make new connections and retain the old ones both yearning for and avoiding fellowship as he wanders the streets interacting with other denizens like him as well as shopkeepers baristas and a street preacher who can talk the ghost right into you then talk it right back out He don t know when to stop It is a complicated calculus of relationships and expectations skillfully managed Pedroza is a promising new voice in Texas letters reminding me of Dagoberto Gilb who wrote in El Paso twenty years ago A couple of the stories in The Dead Will Rise and Save Us are a little rough around the edges and left me bewildered but Pedroza has a full vision and much potential. The dead will rise and save usp pdf free Originally published in Lone Star Literary Life 219 Un libro excelente Los relatos A Man who Ate his Own Head el paso y Subtle Shades of Green est n entre los mejores que he le do recientemente El desierto la frontera la migra los sin techo la falta de oportunidades y futuro tratados a trav s de unos personajes muy ricos y de una prosa s lida contundente y hermosa 219 The Dead Will Rise and Save Us is an enthralling collection that runs through streets and neighborhoods that the reader will recognize and yet discover as a newcomer at the same time The stories observe understate and highlight the often incomprehensible behavior of people thrown together through fate choice and even hope 219 Pedroza s collection is beautifully written the twelve stories work in harmony to tell of a geographic place that is much than its location on the map The land the stories and the characters straddle and balance between two very different if not many cultures beliefs traditions and challenges The collection whispers of the inhabitants both living and dead encobijados who inhabit the borderlands Pedroza s prose takes you by the hand gently at first then drags you through the borderland showing you the prosperity and hardships of the characters and place forcing you to experience the inhabitants events and consequences contained within Pedroza is liberal with description wry and witty with dialogue and heavy handed with character A new voice in literature but seasoned and wise We will no doubt see much from this author 219

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Fiction Latino Latina Studies THE DEAD WILL RISE AND SAVE US is a collection of short stories set in the border cities of El Paso Ju rez with an array of interesting characters which range from high school students negotiating their identities homeless characters living in the San Jacinto Plaza characters that navigate the border between Ciudad Ju rez and El Paso and This collection embodies life in the border in many ways such as the bilingualism of the characters the socio cultural elements of the settings and the tensions between the difficulties and beauty of living in the border region The Dead Will Rise and Save UsPaul Pedroza was born and raised in El Paso Texas Currently he is completing his first novel. Book the dead will rise and save us pdf download His work has appeared in Rattle MAKE A Chicago Literary Magazine Palabra BorderSenses Confluencia Inquiring Mind Buddhist Magazine and in the following anthologies Our Lost Border Arte P blico Press 2013 New Border Voices TAMU Press 2014 and Mezcla 2 Tumblewords 2013 His story collection The Dead Will Rise and Save Us is out now from Veliz Books and is listed in NBC News 9 Great Books by Latino Authors Summer 2016 Reading List Paul Pedroza was born and raised in El Paso Texas Currently he is completing his first novel. The dead will rise and save uso of His work has appeared in Rattle MAKE A Chicago Literary Magazine Palabra BorderSenses Confluencia Inquiring Mind Buddhist Magazine and in the following anthologies Our Lost Border Arte P blico Press 2013 New Border Voices TAMU Press 2014 and Mezcla 2 Tumblewords 2013 His story collection The Dead Will Rise and Save Us is out now from Veliz Books and is listed in NBC News 9 Great Books by Latino Authors Summer 2016 Reading List site_link.

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