Fight Like a Man and Other Stories We Tell Our Children
Fight Like a Man and Other Stories We Tell Our Children
Winner of the 2018 NACCS Tejas Foco Fiction Book Award
Winner of the 2017 Writers' League of Texas Fiction Discovery Prize
Life in the parched landscape of El Paso is the setting for this book of stories about people navigating their way through dysfunctional lives with the help of friends and family--people like Moníca Montoya, a housewife and mother whose affair leaves her pregnant, causing her to revisit the legacy of her father, a man who maintained two separate families on either side of the Mexican-American border. In spite of their bad choices, the characters in this collection never give up.
Sharply realized fiction located in a vibrant community.'--Kirkus Reviews
A vivid look at those who love and those who lose along the El Paso-Ciudad Juarez border.'--Latino Book Review
Like the sharp-edged agave set against the El Paso cityscape that dominates the foreground of her collection's front cover, Granados's heartfelt stories about working-class characters of Mexican descent are razor-laced narratives that cut holes in prevailing literary archetypes and social stereotypes. . . . Granados's succinct and sharply worded prose hits the reader multiple times through her narrative's grounding in social realism.'--Western American Literature
Granados's characters' voices ring true in these peeks into everyday life on the Texas-Mexico border.'--Booklist
Like her characters, Christine Granados is not afraid to step up and in. It doesn't matter who, what man or woman, Chicano or Chicana, she's fighting to win.'--Dagoberto Gilb, author of Before the End, After the Beginning: Stories
Kick-ass writing from a chingona from El Chuco--a real slice of America without the stereotypes and hype from the evening news. ¡Brava!'--Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street
Christine Granados was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. She has worked as a journalist for the El Paso Times and the Austin American-Statesman. Currently she is a reporter at the Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post.
Fight Like a Man: A Novella
Chapter One. Curandera
Chapter Two. Fight Like a Man
Chapter Three. Haunts
Chapter Four. Just Us Girls
Chapter Five. Tension
Chapter Six. The Seduction
Chapter Seven. Unraveled
Chapter Eight. La Ofrenda
Chapter Nine. Not What It Seems
Chapter Ten. Rest in Peace
Chapter Eleven. Bernie's Fortune
Short Stories
Shelf Life
A River of Misunderstanding
Addressed
stupids
Good Father
She's Got Game
Duck, Duck, Goosed
Acknowledgments
