Many of his stories offer flawed characters, using faulty reasoning to make bad choices. Others are more an elegy to lost innocence than what the surface indicates. There's the meth-addled youth bent on redemption by returning to New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a mischievous imp wreaking havoc in 1980s Berkeley, and a circus clown fleeing his Mexican trapeze artist lover by escaping to Argentina. The reader will also encounter an elusive faun of the Oaxacan highlands, a traveler expiring from dengue fever, a revisionist Jack Kerouac, and a victim of Pinochet's brutal coup, along with troubled chickenhawks and ambivalent lovers trying to work it out in venues as diverse as chatrooms, a junkyard, and a puppet theater.
Many of his stories offer flawed characters, using faulty reasoning to make bad choices. Others are more an elegy to lost innocence than what the surface indicates. There's the meth-addled youth bent on redemption by returning to New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a mischievous imp wreaking havoc in 1980s Berkeley, and a circus clown fleeing his Mexican trapeze artist lover by escaping to Argentina. The reader will also encounter an elusive faun of the Oaxacan highlands, a traveler expiring from dengue fever, a revisionist Jack Kerouac, and a victim of Pinochet's brutal coup, along with troubled chickenhawks and ambivalent lovers trying to work it out in venues as diverse as chatrooms, a junkyard, and a puppet theater.
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