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In this stirring collection of eleven stories set in Latino communities in the northeast, J.L. Torres crafts deft reflections of Puerto Ricans living on the mainland. A son who follows his father’s wish to be buried in his beloved isla but can’t seem to meet his father’s other wish to not be covered with the American flag, a right he has as a veteran of World War II and Korea. A Nuyorican visiting his aunt in Cayey is fascinated with a run-down shack where a mysterious woman lives, surrounded by conflicting stories about her life and loves. In the Bronx, Ralph and Lou are unnerved by a spooky sight: eight red kerchiefs tied equidistantly apart on a cyclone fence. Torres’ characters reveal the circumstances that shape their lives in these thought-provoking stories that explore machismo, family relationships, love, and even santeria.
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In ...The Family Terrorist and Other Stories, J. L. Torres approaches family as a territory with boundaries sometimes misunderstood by its own members. ...In "Pigeons," ..the devastating last gesture, as abrupt and shocking as it is appropriate in its anger, is a strong testament to the architecture of Torres's collection, in which the stories have gained maximum power from their thematic relation to each other. --Manuel Munoz,, author of Zigzagger and The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue. From "Crossing Frontiers: New Spaces in Six Works of Fiction," Western American Literature.
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