Borderlands: Short Fictions
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Borderlands begins with an introductory piece of memoir, called The Outsiders,” about Blake’s own straddling of worlds and identities. In the following eight haunting stories, we meet Don Sebastián Cabrillo Mayor Cortés y Mendoza, a powerful landowner reduced to howling at the moon from behind the bars of a mental institution; an illegal immigrant in Florida who must reckon with his emotional turmoil after being robbed by a fellow Mexican; a Texas woman orphaned by disease and desertion, making her way into a violent world of men; and many more who pass through the shadows of the borderlands. Bold, honest, and humane, these pieces represent some of the best writing from one of the most original and authentic voices in contemporary fiction.
James Carlos Blake
James Carlos Blake is the author of thirteen previous novels, including The Ways of Wolfe, The House of Wolfe, The Rules of Wolfe, which was shortlisted for the CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger Award and named one of Booklist's Best 101 Crime Novels of the Past Decade, and Country of the Bad Wolfes. He is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and a recipient of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for In the Rogue Blood. He was born in Mexico, raised in Texas, and has recently resumed residence in southern Arizona.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book would be excellent to use with older high school students in an ethnic studies or Chicano(a) studies class. Since the book is a collection of short stories, the book can be divided amongst the class, in order to accomodate for students who either have trouble reading longer books or do not have a strong passion for reading. In addition, the book might spark the interest of students who can relate on a cultural and socio-economic level. I like how some of the stories used the first person, and the detail of the surroundings made it easy to visual the environment in some of the stories.