Maria, Maria: & Other Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Maria, Maria: & Other Stories write by Marytza K. Rubio. This book was released on 2022-04-26. Maria, Maria: & Other Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Conjuring entrancing tales of Mexican American mystics and misfits, Marytza K. Rubio shatters the boundaries of reality with this fiercely imaginative debut. “The first witch of the waters was born in Destruction. The moon named her Maria.” Set against the tropics and megacities of the Americas, Maria, Maria takes inspiration from wild creatures, tarot, and the porous borders between life and death. Motivated by love and its inverse, grief, the characters who inhabit these stories negotiate boldly with nature to cast their desired ends. As the enigmatic community college professor in “Brujería for Beginners” reminds us: “There’s always a price for conjuring in darkness. You won’t always know what it is until payment is due.” This commitment drives the disturbingly faithful widow in “Tijuca,” who promises to bury her husband’s head in the rich dirt of the jungle, and the sisters in “Moksha,” who are tempted by a sleek obsidian dagger once held by a vampiric idol. But magic isn’t limited to the women who wield it. As Rubio so brilliantly elucidates, animals are powerful magicians too. Subversive pigeons and hungry jaguars are called upon in “Tunnels,” and a lonely little girl runs free with a resurrected saber-toothed tiger in “Burial.” A colorful catalog of gallery exhibits from animals in therapy is featured in “Art Show,” including the Almost Philandering Fox, who longs after the red pelt of another, and the recently rehabilitated Paranoid Peacocks. Brimming with sharp wit and ferocious female intuition, these stories bubble over into the titular novella, “Maria, Maria”—a tropigoth family drama set in a reimagined California rainforest that explores the legacies of three Marias, and possibly all Marias. Writing in prose so lush it threatens to creep off the page, Rubio emerges as an ineffable new voice in contemporary short fiction.
The Moths and Other Stories
The Moths and Other Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Moths and Other Stories write by Helena MarÕa Viramontes. This book was released on 1995-01-01. The Moths and Other Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The adolescent protagonist of the title story, like other girls in this pioneering collection, rebels against her father, refusing to go to Mass. Instead, dressed in her black Easter shoes and carrying her missal and veil, she goes to her abuelitaÍs house. Her grandmother has always accepted her for who she is and has provided a safe refuge from the anger and violence at home. The eight haunting stories included in this collection explore the social, economic and cultural impositions that shape womenÍs lives. Girls on the threshold of puberty rebel against their fathers, struggle to understand their sexuality, and in two stories, deal with the ramifications of pregnancy. Other women struggle against the limitations of marriage and the Catholic religion, which seek to keep them subservient to the men in their lives. Prejudice and the social and economic status of Chicanos often form the backdrop as women fightwith varying degrees of successto break free from oppression. Shedding light on the complex lives and experiences of Mexican-American girls and women, this bilingual edition containing the first-ever Spanish translation of ViramontesÍ debut collection, The Moths and Other Stories, will make this landmark work available to a wider audience.
How to Be Eaten
How to Be Eaten - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Be Eaten write by Maria Adelmann. This book was released on 2022-05-31. How to Be Eaten available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of NPR's Best Books of the Year: This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma. In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a psychopathic, blue-bearded billionaire. Ruby, once devoured by a wolf, now wears him as a coat. Gretel questions her memory of being held captive in a house made of candy. Ashlee, the winner of a Bachelor-esque dating show, wonders if she really got her promised fairy tale ending. And Raina's love story will shock them all. Though the women start out wary of one another, judging each other’s stories, gradually they begin to realize that they may have more in common than they supposed . . . What really brought them here? What secrets will they reveal? And is it too late for them to rescue each other? Dark, edgy, and wickedly funny, this debut for readers of Carmen Maria Machado, Kristen Arnett, and Kelly Link takes our coziest, most beloved childhood stories, exposes them as anti-feminist nightmares, and transforms them into a new kind of myth for grown-up women. *Belletrist June Book Club Pick* Named a Best Book of May by TIME Magazine & Glamour One of NPR’s Best Books of the Year
Maria
Maria - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Maria write by Allan Lenzner. This book was released on 2014-09-30. Maria available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Magic Ring and Other Stories: From the Yellow and Crimson Fairy Books
The Magic Ring and Other Stories: From the Yellow and Crimson Fairy Books - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Magic Ring and Other Stories: From the Yellow and Crimson Fairy Books write by Various. This book was released on 2022-08-01. The Magic Ring and Other Stories: From the Yellow and Crimson Fairy Books available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Magic Ring and Other Stories: From the Yellow and Crimson Fairy Books" by Various. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
