Summary: A collection of stories that explores the borders between people and nations includes "Amapola" and "Bid Farewell to Her Many Horses."
Booklist Reviews
The author of numerous fiction and nonfiction titles, including the poetry collection The Tijuana Book of the Dead (2015), Urrea is an established storyteller who blends sympathetic characters with riveting, unexpected plots. An early story in this collection catalogs the hilarious misadventures of Junior and Shadow, two Chicano homeboys who imitate "Louie and Clark" in a stolen kayak, until Shadow's family gets a visit from ICE. In the next story, Junior and his brother Chango steal abandoned dishwashers and TV sets from foreclosed homes in Arizona. In "Taped to the Sky," Don Her Many Horses lends a rifle to Hubbard, a crazed white guy lost near the Oglala reservation, who destroys his ex-wife's Volvo with gunfire. Her Many Horses reappears in another story after the unexpected death of his sister. While a few of these stories appeared in a previous collection (Six Kinds of Sky, 2002), and the story of a mysterious, graffiti-covered Mexican town worked best as a graphic novel (Mr. Mendoza's Paintbrush, 2010), Urrea succeeds in writing unforgettable characters who face desperate, life-changing scenarios. Copyright 2014 Booklist Reviews.
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