The World Doesn't Work That Way, but It Could: Stories - Couverture rigide

Murray, Yxta Maya

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1948908697 ISBN 13 : 9781948908696

Editeur : University of Nevada Press, 2020

Synopsis

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The gripping, thought-provoking stories in Yxta Maya Murray's latest collection find their inspiration in the headlines. Here, ordinary people negotiate tentative paths through wildfire, mass shootings, bureaucratic incompetence, and heedless government policies with vicious impacts on the innocent and helpless. A nurse volunteers to serve in catastrophe-stricken Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria and discovers that her skill and compassion are useless in the face of stubborn governmental inertia. An Environmental Protection Agency employee, whose agricultural-worker parents died after long exposure to a deadly pesticide, finds herself forced to find justifications for reversing regulations that had earlier banned the chemical. A Department of Education employee in a dystopic future America visits a highly praised charter school and discovers the horrific consequences of academic failure. A transgender trainer of beauty pageant contestants takes on a beautiful Latina for the Miss USA pageant and brings her to perfection and the brink of victory, only to discover that she has a fatal secret.

The characters in these stories grapple with the consequences of frightening attitudes and policies pervasive in the United States today. The stories explore not only our distressing human capacity for moral numbness in the face of evil, but also reveal our surprising stores of compassion and forgiveness. These brilliantly conceived and beautifully written stories are troubling yet irresistible mirrors of our time.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Yxta Maya Murray is an art critic, author, and law professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, CA. She has won a Whiting Writer's Award and an Art Writer's Grant. She was a finalist for the ASME Fiction Award in 2019. Her work has been published in Artforum, Aperture, Ploughshares, Conjunctions, The Georgia Review, Guernica, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and other magazines.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nevada Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1948908697
• ISBN 13: 9781948908696
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 274
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• Personne responsable: non disponible