Ebook {Epub PDF} Brownsville: Stories by Oscar Cásares

A stunning and timely novel about a Mexican-American family in Brownsville, Texas, who reluctantly becomes involved in smuggling immigrants into the United States. For Nina, after doing a small favor for her maid she eventually finds herself providing refuge for a young immigrant boy named Daniel, for whom traveling to America has meant trading one set of dangers for another. In his sparkling debut, Oscar Casares creates a cast of unforgettable characters confronting everyday possibilities and contradictions: Diego, an eleven-year-old whose job at a fireworks stand teaches him a lesson in defiance; Bony, a young man whose discovery of a monkey's head on his lawn drives a wedge between him and his parents; Lola, whose stolen bowling ball offers an unlikely chance for change/5(78). In his sparkling debut, Oscar Casares creates a cast of unforgettable characters confronting everyday possibilities and contradictions: Diego, an eleven-year-old whose job at a fireworks stand teaches him a lesson in defiance; Bony, a young man whose discovery of a monkey's head on his lawn drives a wedge between him and his parents; Lola, whose stolen bowling ball offers an unlikely chance for change/5(76).

Brownsville: Stories by Oscar Casares Little Brown, pp., $ (paper) Scientists have recently discovered that if you tickle a young rat, you can get him to giggle -- or the rat equivalent. Brownsville: stories Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Share to Facebook. Share to Reddit. Brownsville: stories by Casares, Oscar, Publication date Topics Mexican Americans, Working class Publisher Boston: Back Bay Books Collection. Oscar Casares (born May 7,) is an American writer and an associate professor of creative writing. He is the author of Brownsville: Stories and Amigoland. Short story writer Oscar Casares is celebrating a homecoming of sorts, returning to his hometown of Brownsville, Texas, after years living in Austin, Minneapolis.

BROWNSVILLE: STORIES is the debut collection of short stories by Oscar Casares. The collection contains nine stories separated into three parts. At first some of the stories seem strange like the one about the monkey head, Chango. †But Casares does a wonderful job of tilting your sense of reality so that after reading a few paragraphs, you kind of understand whatπs going on. In his sparkling debut, Oscar Casares creates a cast of unforgettable characters confronting everyday possibilities and contradictions: Diego, an eleven-year-old whose job at a fireworks stand teaches him a lesson in defiance; Bony, a young man whose discovery of a monkey's head on his lawn drives a wedge between him and his parents; Lola, whose stolen bowling ball offers an unlikely chance for change. Brownsville: Stories by Oscar Cásares Brownsville: Stories is a short story collection by American author Oscar www.doorway.ru was published in by Back Bay Books and was his first book. The title is taken from Casares’ hometown of Brownsville, Texas, where the loosely related stories in the book are set.