Fight Like a Man and Other Stories We Tell Our Children

Christine Granados (Author)

9780826357922

Paperback / softback, published 1 March 2017

192 pages
21.3 x 13.9 x 1.5 cm, 0.255 kg

“Like her characters, Christine Granados is not afraid to step up and in. It doesn’t matter who, what man or woman, Chicano or Chicana, she’s fighting to win.”—Dagoberto Gilb, author of Before the End, After the Beginning: Stories

“Kick-ass writing from a chingona from El Chuco—a real slice of America without the stereotypes and hype from the evening news. ¡Brava!”—Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street

Life in the parched landscape of El Paso is the setting for this book of stories about people navigating their way through dysfunctional lives with the help of friends and family—people like Moníca Montoya, a housewife and mother whose affair leaves her pregnant, causing her to revisit the legacy of her father, a man who maintained two separate families on either side of the Mexican-American border. In spite of their bad choices, the characters in this collection never give up.