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At a time when the region has been co-opted for every possible rhetorical use, what endures is a resilient and vibrant local culture that resists easy characterization. For an honest picture of life on the border, what remains is to listen to voices that are too often drowned out: the people who actually live and work there, who make their homes and livings amid a confluence of cultures and loyalties.F or many of these people, the border is less a hyphenated place than a meeting place, a merging. This aspect of the border is epitomized in the names of two cities that straddle the line: Calexico and Mexicali. A “sleepy crossroads that exists at a global flashpoint,” Calexico serves Of Related Interest as the reference point for veteran journalist Peter Laufer’s chronicle of day-to-day life on the border. This wide-ranging, interview-driven book finds Crossing Laufer and his traveling companion/photographer on a weeklong road trip with the Virgin through the Imperial Valley and other border locales, engaging in earnest Stories from the Migrant Trail and revealing conversations with the people they meet along the way. Laufer KATHRYN FERGUSON, NORMA A. PRICE, talks to secretaries and politicians, restaurateurs and salsa dancers, poets and and TED PARKS real estate agents about the issues that matter to them the most. ISBN 978-0-8165-2854-7 What draws them to border towns? How do they feel about border $17.95 paper security and the fences that may someday run through their backyards? Is “English-only” a realistic policy? Why have some towns flourished and others Lives on the Line declined? What does it mean to be Mexican or American in such a place? Dispatches from the U.S.–Mexico Border Waitress Bonnie Peterson banters with customers in Spanish and English. MIRIAM DAVIDSON Mayor Lewis Pacheco laments the role that globalization has played in his “Timely and compelling.” —Booklist city’s labor market. Some of their anecdotes are humorous, others grim. ISBN 978-0-8165-1998-9 Moreover, not everyone agrees. But this very diversity is part of the fabric of $17.95 paper the borderlands, and these stories demand to be heard. PETER LAUFER, PhD, is the winner of major awards for excellence in reporting—including the George Polk and Edward R. Murrow awards—and an independent journalist, broadcaster, and documentary filmmaker working in traditional and new media. He has crossed and reported from various borders around the world, including the DMZ between North and South Korea, and the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. He is the author of several other books, including Wetback Nation: The Case for Opening the Mexican–American Border. He holds the James Wallace Chair in Journalism at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. B ORDER STUDIES September 248 pp. 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-8165-2951-3 $19.95 paper www.uapress.arizona.edu W 1-800-426-3797 1 F rom This Wicked Patch of Dust A Novel by SERGIO TRONCOSO One family’s struggle to become American In the border shantytown of Ysleta, Mexican immigrants Pilar and Cuauhtémoc Martínez strive to teach their four children to forsake the drugs and gangs of their neighborhood. The family’s hardscrabble origins are just the beginning of this sweeping new novel from Sergio Troncoso. Spanning four decades, this is a story of a family’s struggle to become American and yet not be pulled apart by an onslaught of cultural forces. Daughter Julieta is disenchanted with Catholicism and converts to Islam. Youngest son Ismael, always the bookworm, is accepted to Harvard but feels out of place in the Northeast, where he meets and marries a Jewish woman. The other boys—Marcos and Francisco—toil in their father’s old apartment buildings, serving as cheap labor to fuel the family’s rise to the middle class. Over time, Francisco isolates himself in El Paso, while Marcos eventually Of Related Interest leaves to become a teacher but then returns, struggling with a deep bitter- ness about his work and marriage. Through it all, Pilar clings to the idea of The Last Tortilla her family and tries to hold it together as her husband’s health begins to fail. And Other Stories This backdrop is shaken to its core by the historic events of 2001 in SERGIO TRONCOSO New York City, which send shockwaves through this newly American family. “These stories are richly Bitter conflicts erupt between siblings, and the physical and cultural spaces satisfying.” —Publishers Weekly between them threaten to tear them apart. Will their shared history and ISBN 978-0-8165-1961-3 $18.95 paper once-shared dreams be enough to hold together a family from Ysleta, this wicked patch of dust? Brides and Sinners SERGIO TRONCOSO is a graduate of both Harvard College and Yale in El Chuco University and the author of The Last Tortilla and Other Stories and The CHRISTINE GRANADOS Nature of Truth: A Novel, the former also published by the University of “Attention to detail and language Arizona Press. that clearly evokes the intensities of half-filled desires..” —Publishers Weekly “One reads From This Wicked patch of Dust and can only pause ISBN 978-0-8165-2492-1 for a moment to say, ‘Yes.’ Sergio Troncoso writes with inevitable $14.95 paper grace and mounting power. Family, in all its baffling wonder, comes alive on these pages.” —Luis Urrea, author of The Hummingbird’s Daughter “An irresistible read, this compelling novel explores a family’s conflicted desires: to honor the past that connected them closely to one another and to embrace the future that launches them toward separate destinies—to belong and to be free. Sergio Troncoso FIINCT O delivers a moving and unforgettable story.” —Lorraine López, author of Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories Camino del Sol “The novel whirls in and out of expanding cultural identities— September Mexican and American; poor, ambitious, and smart; Catholic, 320 pp. Muslim, and even Jewish—and yet stays centered on a family in the 6 x 9 borderlands, it details a past that is more the cultural future. El Paso deserves big books, and Sergio Trocoso gives us one here—in a voice ISBN 978-0-8165-3004-5 $17.95 paper that is both his and ours.” —Dagoberto Gilb, author of Woodcuts of Women 2 www.uapress.arizona.edu W 1-800-426-3797 The Other Latin@ Writing Against a Singular Identity Edited by BLAS FALCONER and LORRAINE M. LÓPEZ Latino writers explore cultural diversity “The stereotype spells death to the imagination by shrinking all possibilities to one. Generalizations encourage us to stop considering what can be.” —from the Introduction The sheer number of different ethnic groups and cultures in the United States makes it tempting to classify them according to broad stereotypes, ignoring their unique and changing identities. Because of their growing diversity within the United States, Latinas and Latinos face this problem in their everyday lives. With cultural roots in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and a variety of other locales, Hispanic-origin people in the United States are too often consigned to a single category. With this book Blas Falconer and Lorraine M. López set out to change this. The Other Latin@ is a diverse collection of essays written by some of the Of Related Interest best emerging and established contemporary writers of Latin origin to help answer the question: How can we treat US Latina and Latino literature as a Camino del Sol definable whole while acknowledging the many shifting identities within their Fifteen Years of cultures? By telling their own stories, these authors illuminate the richness of Latina and Latino Writing Edited by their cultural backgrounds while adding a unique perspective to Latina and RIGOBERTO GONZÁLEZ Latino literature. ISBN 978-0-8165-2813-4 This book sheds light on the dangers of abandoning identity by ac- $24.95 paper cepting cultural stereotypes and ignoring diversity within diversity.