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UNENDING ROOMS - Daniel Chacón
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Daniel Chacón is a thoroughly modern writer, his exploration of
inter-personal relationships cutting to the core of who we are. The winner of
The Hudson Prize, Chacón's collection of stories, set mainly in the southwest,
digs deep into the lives of each character, laying bare their emotional distance,
vulnerabilities and desires. Chacón’s writing is deceptively simple,
Carveresque at times in its plain talk. And yet, the narrative in each of these
stories is dead-on-the-money, intimate and insightful. All the universal themes
are there, love and acceptance, rejection and loss, fitting in and standing out,
while in the hands of a masterful story teller like Daniel Chacón, each
tale is brilliantly crafted and unique.
“ Unending Rooms is pure loco wisdom koan, like a slow cruise
down a jagged street in a sweet ride on a boulevard of present
moments without end.”
—Tim Z. Hernandez, author of Skin
Tax
"Unending Rooms is a visit to the hidden recesses
of the mind, a place where Jorge Luis Borges and Stephen King
sit down for coffee while a cello plays a bittersweet melody
you can almost remember. Once you enter, you will emerge a different
person."
—Kathleen Alcala, author of The Desert Remembers My Name and Mrs. Vargas and the Dead Naturalist
“Daniel Chacón’s distinctive storytelling, with its defiance to linearity and closure, with its leanings toward metafiction, gestures south to the Latin American greats like Borges, Cortázar and Paz, but his sensibility is pure Chicano — the hero and anti-hero of the twenty-first century who sinks and swims through libraries and barrios, politics and passions, tradition and innovation. Unending Rooms is a testament of identity as experienced, not on the margins, but at the center of the beautiful and terrifying cycles.”
—Rigoberto González, author of Butterfly Boy: Memoirs of
a Chicano Mariposa (Writing in Latinidad)
“Although the impact of these stories is utterly adult, they are told with deceptive and seductive simplicity, and reading them is like being invited back into childhood, where fantastical premises, straight-forward syntax, and endless possibility were the literary pleasures. Chacon has either reinvented the form, or refreshingly reminded his readers of what stories do best: linger in the mind like a sudden firework, a flash of pretty magic, in an otherwise dark sky.”
—Antonya Nelson, author of Female Troubles and In the Land
of Men
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Daniel Chacón is author of the books
Chicano Chicanery, a collection of stories, and the novel and
the shadows took him. He is co-editor of The Last
Supper of Chicano Heroes: The Selected Works of José Antonio Burciaga, and his latest novel, The
Cholo Tree, is forthcoming. His stories and essays have appeared in many journals
and anthologies. See his webpage at www.soychacon.com |
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