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LA & Go [Published Date: 2009]. Softcover, 255 pp. One of 1000 (unnumbered) copies. Inscribed (personalized) and signed by Author on title page. Bi-lingual text in Spanish and English.
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In very good condition. Glossy illustrated soft covers with French flaps have light bumping to edges and corners and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From back cover] Nayla Chehade Pilar Melero's Mythic Rocks is a stunning collection. Generous in scope, intimate in purpose, and fierce with reality, these lyrical and radiant stories are informed by a shape-shifting, truth-telling, mythic imagination. Like the swinging bridge in Melero's childhood Mexican village of Atotonilco, they magically transport the reader to another world, "filled with the aroma of breads baked for Holy Week . . . the smell of incense etched on the skin of . . . memory." Here, an old man plays a harp to keep the bees alive, a woman enters the past via a historical exhibit, a group of visitors is guided up an enchanted mountain by a ghostly woman, an immigrant girl shatters her roommate's stereotypical expectations, and her own. Shot through with luminous insights, these stories are both praise-songs to the place that made her and a record of the pain and struggle inherent in the immigrant experience. Melero has an ability to capture and describe the relationship between interior and exterior worlds in a way that is simultaneously grounded in the rocks, rivers, and mountains she knows so well and are filled with mystery. Everywhere illuminated by an alert, searching female intelligence, these stories ultimately explore the mysteries of language and identity - language lost, language learned, and language recreated and made Melero's own. Passionate, powerful, original, this collection does indeed "make memory," offering proof that myth is alive and well in the Americas, and proof that stories can not only tell us who we are, but heal us, heal our world.