{"product_id":"maria-maria-marytza-k-rubio-9781324090540","title":"Maria, Maria: \u0026 Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003e\"The first witch of the waters was born in Destruction. The moon named her Maria.\"\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the tropics and megacities of the Americas, \u003cem\u003eMaria, Maria\u003c\/em\u003e takes inspiration from wild creatures, tarot, and the porous borders between life and death. Motivated by love and its inverse, grief, the characters who inhabit these stories negotiate boldly with nature to cast their desired ends. As the enigmatic community college professor in \"Brujer? for Beginners\" reminds us: \"There's always a price for conjuring in darkness. You won't always know what it is until payment is due.\" This commitment drives the disturbingly faithful widow in \"Tijuca,\" who promises to bury her husband's head in the rich dirt of the jungle, and the sisters in \"Moksha,\" who are tempted by a sleek obsidian dagger once held by a vampiric idol.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut magic isn't limited to the women who wield it. As Rubio so brilliantly elucidates, animals are powerful magicians too. Subversive pigeons and hungry jaguars are called upon in \"Tunnels,\" and a lonely little girl runs free with a resurrected saber-toothed tiger in \"Burial.\" A colorful catalog of gallery exhibits from animals in therapy is featured in \"Art Show,\" including the Almost Philandering Fox, who longs after the red pelt of another, and the recently rehabilitated Paranoid Peacocks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrimming with sharp wit and ferocious female intuition, these stories bubble over into the titular novella, \"Maria, Maria\"--a tropigoth family drama set in a reimagined California rainforest that explores the legacies of three Marias, and possibly all Marias. Writing in prose so lush it threatens to creep off the page, Rubio emerges as an ineffable new voice in contemporary short fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marytza K. Rubio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1324090545\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324090540\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liveright Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/26\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.70w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Book Awards - Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2021 pg. 11\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/10\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2022 pg. 134\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2022 pg. 43","brand":"Marytza K. Rubio","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44050071027967,"sku":"9781324090540","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_48ea2b95-b395-4c1e-be5a-85caf1b29dbd.jpg?v=1685005043","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/maria-maria-marytza-k-rubio-9781324090540","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}