Oswaldo Estrada is an award-winning author of many books including the short-story collections Luces de emergencia (Emergency Lights) and Las guerras perdidas (The Lost Wars) and the novel Tus pequeñas huellas (Footprints). He is a professor of Latin American Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sarah Pollack is a professor of Spanish and Translation Studies at CUNY–Staten Island and the Graduate Center. She has translated many other books, including Passages by Mariana Graciano and Time Without Keys: Selected Poems by Ida Vitale.

"In these stories, Estrada walked alongside those immigrants who, suffering violence or war in their countries, left everything to find a new life and, above all, to find the peace so necessary to continue and recover their humanity." - Carlos Villacorta Gonzales, author of Alicia, esto es el capitalismo"The characters in these stories are Latin American immigrants who moved to the United States and are clinging to their dreams after crossing several physical and symbolic borders. . . . They all conform to an amalgamation of different migrations that deal with struggles, traumas, displacement, racism, cultural shock, violence, and discrimination." - Sara Cordón, author of Para español, pulse 2

• PrefaceDreams in Times of WarThe Weed WhackerThe Last BorderAssisted LivingA Sip of BenadrylOne's IllnessUnder My SkinThe Sleep of ReasonThe SwingsCats and DogsHelp WantedMy Father's HandsAcknowledgementsSoñar en tiempos de guerra / Textos en españolPrefacioLas locas ilusionesMala hierbaLa última fronteraAssisted LivingUn traguito de BenadrylEl hombre y el malDebajo de mi pielLos sueños de la razónLos columpiosEl último zarpazoHelp WantedLas manos de papáAgradecimientos

Oswaldo Estrada is an award-winning author of many books including the short-story collections Luces de emergencia (Emergency Lights) and Las guerras perdidas (The Lost Wars) and the novel Tus pequeñas huellas (Footprints). He is a professor of Latin American Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sarah Pollack is a professor of Spanish and Translation Studies at CUNY–Staten Island and the Graduate Center. She has translated many other books, including Passages by Mariana Graciano and Time Without Keys: Selected Poems by Ida Vitale.

"In these stories, Estrada walked alongside those immigrants who, suffering violence or war in their countries, left everything to find a new life and, above all, to find the peace so necessary to continue and recover their humanity." - Carlos Villacorta Gonzales, author of Alicia, esto es el capitalismo"The characters in these stories are Latin American immigrants who moved to the United States and are clinging to their dreams after crossing several physical and symbolic borders. . . . They all conform to an amalgamation of different migrations that deal with struggles, traumas, displacement, racism, cultural shock, violence, and discrimination." - Sara Cordón, author of Para español, pulse 2

• PrefaceDreams in Times of WarThe Weed WhackerThe Last BorderAssisted LivingA Sip of BenadrylOne's IllnessUnder My SkinThe Sleep of ReasonThe SwingsCats and DogsHelp WantedMy Father's HandsAcknowledgementsSoñar en tiempos de guerra / Textos en españolPrefacioLas locas ilusionesMala hierbaLa última fronteraAssisted LivingUn traguito de BenadrylEl hombre y el malDebajo de mi pielLos sueños de la razónLos columpiosEl último zarpazoHelp WantedLas manos de papáAgradecimientos

Oswaldo Estrada is an award-winning author of many books including the short-story collections Luces de emergencia (Emergency Lights) and Las guerras perdidas (The Lost Wars) and the novel Tus pequeñas huellas (Footprints). He is a professor of Latin American Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sarah Pollack is a professor of Spanish and Translation Studies at CUNY–Staten Island and the Graduate Center. She has translated many other books, including Passages by Mariana Graciano and Time Without Keys: Selected Poems by Ida Vitale.

"In these stories, Estrada walked alongside those immigrants who, suffering violence or war in their countries, left everything to find a new life and, above all, to find the peace so necessary to continue and recover their humanity." - Carlos Villacorta Gonzales, author of Alicia, esto es el capitalismo"The characters in these stories are Latin American immigrants who moved to the United States and are clinging to their dreams after crossing several physical and symbolic borders. . . . They all conform to an amalgamation of different migrations that deal with struggles, traumas, displacement, racism, cultural shock, violence, and discrimination." - Sara Cordón, author of Para español, pulse 2

• PrefaceDreams in Times of WarThe Weed WhackerThe Last BorderAssisted LivingA Sip of BenadrylOne's IllnessUnder My SkinThe Sleep of ReasonThe SwingsCats and DogsHelp WantedMy Father's HandsAcknowledgementsSoñar en tiempos de guerra / Textos en españolPrefacioLas locas ilusionesMala hierbaLa última fronteraAssisted LivingUn traguito de BenadrylEl hombre y el malDebajo de mi pielLos sueños de la razónLos columpiosEl último zarpazoHelp WantedLas manos de papáAgradecimientos