Dreams in Times of War / Soñar en tiempos de guerra
Stories / Cuentos
In twelve stories, Dreams in Times of War / Soñar en tiempos de guerra brilliantly fictionalizes the lives of Latinx immigrants in the United States. The stories explore themes of violence including toxic masculinity, domestic abuse, and (trans)gender discrimination but also the alternative communities the characters form that offer solidarity and hope. Readers will celebrate this unflinching but heartfelt look at diverse immigrant experiences in the twenty-first century United States.
In these stories, Estrada walked alongside those immigrants who, suffering violence or war in their countries, left everything to find a new life and, above all, to find the peace so necessary to continue and recover their humanity.’—Carlos Villacorta Gonzales, author of Alicia, esto es el capitalismo
The characters in these stories are Latin American immigrants who moved to the United States and are clinging to their dreams after crossing several physical and symbolic borders.…They all conform to an amalgamation of different migrations that deal with struggles, traumas, displacement, racism, cultural shock, violence, and discrimination.’—Sara Cordón, author of Para español, pulse 2
Oswaldo Estrada is an award-winning author of many books including the short-story collections Luces de emergencia (Emergency Lights) and Las guerras perdidas (The Lost Wars) and the novel Tus pequeñas huellas (Footprints). He is a professor of Latin American Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Sarah Pollack is a professor of Spanish and Translation Studies at CUNY–Staten Island and the Graduate Center. She has translated many other books, including Passages by Mariana Graciano and Time Without Keys: Selected Poems by Ida Vitale.
Preface
Dreams in Times of War
The Weed Whacker
The Last Border
Assisted Living
A Sip of Benadryl
One’s Illness
Under My Skin
The Sleep of Reason
The Swings
Cats and Dogs
Help Wanted
My Father’s Hands
Acknowledgements
Soñar en tiempos de guerra / Textos en español
Prefacio
Las locas ilusiones
Mala hierba
La última frontera
Assisted Living
Un traguito de Benadryl
El hombre y el mal
Debajo de mi piel
Los sueños de la razón
Los columpios
El último zarpazo
Help Wanted
Las manos de papá
Agradecimientos
