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Jul. 31, 2024
My Chicano Heart: Using fiction to explore love in all its confounding forms
Daniel A. Olivas reviewed his past works during the pandemic and identified love as a recurring theme, leading to the creation of his new collection, "My Chicano Heart."
In 2020, as my father was approaching the end of his physical life, I started to review well over a hundred short stories and novel chapters that I had written and published over the course of almost 25 years. From that exercise—perhaps one that admitted my own mortality—I chose some of my stranger stories to include with two newer pieces to produce a collection that was firmly footed in the magical realist, fabulist, and dystopian literary traditions. The result was ...
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