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Fight Like a Man and Other Stories We Tell Our Children
Christine Granados
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Description for Fight Like a Man and Other Stories We Tell Our Children
Paperback. "Like her characters, Christine Granados is not afraid to step up and in. It doesn't matter who, what man or woman, Chicano or Chicana, she's fighting to win."--Dagoberto Gilb, author of Before the End, After the Beginning: Stories Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Life in the parched landscape of El Paso is the setting for this book of stories about people navigating their way through dysfunctional lives with the help of friends and family—people like Moníca Montoya, a housewife and mother whose affair leaves her pregnant, causing her to revisit the legacy of her father, a man who maintained two separate families on either side of the Mexican-American border. In spite of their bad choices, the characters in this collection never give up.
Life in the parched landscape of El Paso is the setting for this book of stories about people navigating their way through dysfunctional lives with the help of friends and family—people like Moníca Montoya, a housewife and mother whose affair leaves her pregnant, causing her to revisit the legacy of her father, a man who maintained two separate families on either side of the Mexican-American border. In spite of their bad choices, the characters in this collection never give up.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826357922
SKU
V9780826357922
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About Christine Granados
Christine Granados was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. She has worked as a journalist for the El Paso Times and the Austin American-Statesman. Currently she is a reporter at the Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post.
Reviews for Fight Like a Man and Other Stories We Tell Our Children
“Like her characters, Christine Granados is not afraid to step up and in. It doesn’t matter who, what man or woman, Chicano or Chicana, she’s fighting to win.”—Dagoberto Gilb, author of Before the End, After the Beginning: Stories “Kick-ass writing from a chingona from El Chuco—a real slice of America without the stereotypes and hype from the evening news. ... Read more