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Yxta Maya Murray - World Doesn't Work That Way, but It Could, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

World Doesn't Work That Way, but It Could

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Av Yxta Maya Murray

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What does it mean for two Latinas to participate in Miss USA pageants? How does an EPA employee dedicated to the fighting for environmental protections navigate a workplace where she's now expected to find rationales to reverse regulations?How does a law professor, herself a victim of sexual assault, write a letter of recommendation for a student to work for a judge accused of sexual misconduct?How do a Trump supporting father-in-law and his Latina daughter-in-law come together to survive a raging wildfire?What does a college-bound eighteen-year-old girl do when she finds herself pregnant and living in a state where she doesn't have access to abortion?Murray's stories magnify and make real the hidden dialogue of society. Readers are left to grapple with the implications and ramifications of the policies and attitudes pervasive in the United States today and question what it means for the future.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-08-11
  • Mått: 140 x 224 x 28 mm
  • Vikt: 510 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 274
  • Förlag: University of Nevada Press
  • ISBN: 9781948908696
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Yxta Maya Murray is an art critic, author, and law professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, CA. She has won a Whiting Writer's Award and an Art Writer's Grant. She was a finalist for the ASME Fiction Award in 2019. Her work has been published in Artforum, Aperture, Ploughshares, Conjunctions, The Georgia Review, Guernica, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and other magazines.

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Most writers are afraid of tackling these issues head on; Murray should be commended for not backing away and urging the reader to look with her."—Maceo Montoya, author of The Scoundrel and the Optimist"Murray's style is, by turns, sarcastic, witty, sobering, didactic, poignant, informative—and full of corazón. I believe it is a significant contribution."—Patricia Santana, author of Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility"Stories of life and bureaucracy intertwine in the wake of historic disasters, from the western wildfires to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. Murray's stories feature the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Education, and the lives of regular people caught up in the all-too-familiar dystopian currents of the day."—The Millions"...fearless and revalatory.... It is absolutely essential reading."—Buzzfeed

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