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Cómo Salir con un Mexicano Volador es una colección de relatos derivados de las culturas Chicana y Mexicana, pero que abarca fascinantes mundos literarios de realismo mágico, cuentos de hadas, fábulas, y futuros fracturados. Los personajes se enfrentan—tanto directa como indirectamente—a cuestiones de moralidad, justicia, y autodeterminación.
     La colección se compone de los relatos favoritos de Daniel A. Olivas, previamente publicados, junto con dos nuevos relatos, uno distópico y otro mítico, que desafían la retórica y las políticas anti-inmigración de la administración Trump. Los lectores se encontrarán con un mundo lleno tanto de lo mágico como de lo cotidiano: un hombre con doce dedos que se encuentra a sí mismo en una cita mística con una mujer; Dios, que se aparece en forma de gallina raquítica; una mujer que lucha con valentía contra su maltratador; y dioses aztecas en busca de relevancia tras la conquista española—solo por nombrar algunos de los singulares personajes que pueblan estas páginas. El libro reúne algunos de los cuentos más extraños e inolvidables de Olivas, permitiendo a los lectores experimentar su muy distintiva, y muy Chicana, ficción.

 

How to Date a Flying Mexican is a collection of stories derived from Chicano and Mexican culture but ranging through fascinating literary worlds of magical realism, fairy tales, fables, and dystopian futures. Many of Daniel A. Olivas’s characters confront—both directly and obliquely— questions of morality, justice, and self-determination.

The collection is made up of Olivas’s favorite previously published stories, along with two new stories—one dystopian and the other magical— that challenge the Trump administration’s anti-immigration rhetoric and policies. How to Date a Flying Mexican draws together some of Olivas’s most unforgettable and strange tales, allowing readers to experience his very distinct, and very Chicano, fiction.
 

My Chicano Heart is a collection of author Daniel A. Olivas’s favorite previously published tales about love, along with five new stories, that explore the complex, mysterious, and occasionally absurd machinations of people who simply want to be appreciated and treasured. Readers will encounter characters who scheme, search, and flail in settings that are sometimes fantastical and other times mundane: a man who literally gives his heart to his wife who keeps it beating safely in a wooden box; a woman who takes a long-planned trip through New Mexico but, mysteriously, without the company of her true love; a lonely man who gains a remarkably compatible roommate who may or may not be real—just to name a few of the memorable and often haunting characters who fill these pages. Olivas’s richly realized stories are frequently infused with his trademark humor, and readers will delight in—and commiserate with—his lovestruck characters. 

Each story is drawn from Olivas’s nearly twenty-five years of experience writing fiction deeply steeped in Chicano and Mexican culture. Some of the stories are fanciful and full of magic, while others are more realistic, and still others border on noir. All touch upon that most ephemeral and confounding of human emotions: love in all its wondrous forms.