![]() Spassky" is a remembered story about choice - to leave Russia or to stay - that dials forward in time, in devastating fashion. ![]() ![]() Stylistically, there is welcome range as well - from the prose poetry of Alexander to the wild bee fantasy of Hemon to the elaborate fictions of Khakpour's story about a boy who accompanies his Iranian grandmother ("Mother the Big") to the United States where absolutely nothing will destroy her, even all the terrible things she does to herself.ĭanticat's "Hot-Air Balloons" is a seemingly straightforward story about a wrong affair and an assault to a friendship - but it takes a surprising turn. How long should you be in Detroit? Should you spend more time back home in Puerto Rico, or in other nearby cities like Chicago and Toronto? What ever happened to New York, where Mickey spent most of his twenties and a good chunk of his thirties? What would it mean for him to call Detroit home?ĭivided into three sections - "Coming Over," "Being Here," and "Going Back" - the 18 selections are by writers, as Obejas and Bayles note in their preface, who "see themselves as transnational, bicultural, diasporic, global." Each piece arises from a refreshingly unique point of view no two writers in the collection share the same country of origin. ![]()
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