"A slyly political collection of stories about immigration, broken dreams, Los Angeles gang members, Latin American families, and other tales of high stakes journeys, from the award-winning author of War by Candlelight and At Night We Walk in Circles. Migration. Betrayal. Family secrets. Doomed love. Uncertain futures. In Daniel Alarcon's hands, these are transformed into deeply human stories with high stakes. In "The Thousands," people are on the move and forging new paths; hope and heartbreak abound. A man deals with the ...
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"A slyly political collection of stories about immigration, broken dreams, Los Angeles gang members, Latin American families, and other tales of high stakes journeys, from the award-winning author of War by Candlelight and At Night We Walk in Circles. Migration. Betrayal. Family secrets. Doomed love. Uncertain futures. In Daniel Alarcon's hands, these are transformed into deeply human stories with high stakes. In "The Thousands," people are on the move and forging new paths; hope and heartbreak abound. A man deals with the fallout of his blind relatives' mysterious deaths and his father's mental breakdown and incarceration in "The Bridge." A gang member discovers a way to forgiveness and redemption through the haze of violence and trauma in "The Ballad of Rocky Rontal." And in the tour de force novella, "The Auroras," a man severs himself from his old life and seeks to make a new one in a new city, only to find himself seduced and controlled by a powerful woman. Richly drawn, full of unforgettable characters, The King is Always Above the People reveals experiences both unsettling and unknown, and yet eerily familiar in this new world"--
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As New in As New jacket. RIVERHEAD, New York, 2017. First edition. First printing (with full number line). Very Fine in a very-fine dust jacket but for red remainder dot lower edge. A tight, clean copy with price ($27) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 2017 edition. Dust jacket is very good. purple paper boards and binding are very good. Pages are clean and unmarked. LO.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book First Printing. Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction. Author of AT NIGHT WE WALK IN CIRCLES which was a finialist for the PEN/Faulkner Award.
