![]() A dying Frédéric Chopin stumbles through Ciudad Juárez in the aftermath of his mother’s death, attempting to recover his beloved piano that was seized at the border, while a muralist is taken on a psychedelic journey by an airbrushed Emiliano Zapata T-shirt. The stories in Valleyesque dance between the fantastical and the hyperreal with dexterous, often hilarious flair. In his immersive, uncanny borderland, things are never what they seem: a world where the sun is both rising and setting, and where conniving possums efficiently take over an entire town and rewrite its history. Flores, whose stories reimagine and reinterpret the region’s existence with peerless style. No one captures the border-its history and imagination, its danger, contradiction, and redemption-like Fernando A. Psychedelic, dazzling stories set in the cracks of the Texas-Mexico borderland, from an iconoclastic storyteller and the author of Tears of the Trufflepig. ![]() Flores’s deadpan prose and his surefooted navigation of those overlapping territories, the real and the fantastic, where so much of the best contemporary fiction now lives." -Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble "These are marvelously unpredictable stories, anchored by Fernando A. ![]() ![]() "In this exuberantly strange story collection, Flores asks: Whose reality? What rules?" -Jean Chen Ho, author of The New York Times Book Review ![]()
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