Assumption and Other Stories

by Daniel A. Olivas

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931010196
• ISBN13: 9781931010191
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Bilingual Review Press (AZ)
• Length: 157 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Each story immerses the reader in a unique aspect of the American experience

What a wonderful read! Complex and intriguiging, covering a wide range of complex moral, physical, and emotional predicaments of the Latino community of Southern California, making them accessible to the reader in the most inclusive and spell-binding way. No simplistic situations here; Mr. Olivas is advancing American writing from the Latino perspective to the level of the great South American authors.

At times funny and always fascinating

This books contains a series of shorts stories that are freshly written and enticing to read - at times funny and always fascinating. Although fiction, the author's references to actual locations in Los Angeles (including Pico-Union) sometimes transported me back to the "old neighborhood". Enjoyed this books many short stories involving themes of racism, Latin culture and sexuality. Highly recommend.

Intermesh themes of human sexuality, tragedy, challenge

Assumption And Other Stories is an anthology of short stories by the demonstrably talented Chicano author Daniel A. Olivas (Deputy Attorney General, California Department of Justice). His diverse stories intermesh themes of human sexuality, tragedy, challenge, loss, gender, and ethnicity , ranging from a young lawyer who tells her parents about her lesbianism, to the dark sexual rumors of surrounding the suicide of a popular young priest at a Catholic school, to the terror that strikes families when a white supremacist starts shooting at a Jewish children's day camp. Highly recommended reading, these original and memorable stories clearly document Daniel A. Olivas as one of the best and most original Hispanic American authors working today.