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In this collection of short and flash fiction, Daniel Chacón examines peoples' interactions with each other, the impact of identity and the importance of literature, art and music. In one story, a girl remembers her father, who taught her to love books and libraries. "A book can whisper at you, call at you from the shelves. Sometimes a book can find you. Seek you out and ask you to come and play," he told her. Years later, she finds herself pulling an assortment from the shelves, randomly reading passages from different books and entering into the landscapes as if each book were a wormhole. Somehow one excerpt seems to be a continuation of another, connecting in the way that birds do when they fly from a tree to the roof of a house, making "an idea, a connection, a tree-house." Misconceptions about people, the responsibility of the artist and conflicts about identity pepper these stories that take place in the U.S. and abroad. In Mais, Je Suis Chicano , a Mexican American living in Paris identifies himself as Chicano, rather than American. "It's not my fault I was born on the U.S. side of the border," he tells a French Moroccan woman when she discovers that he really is Americ

Who reads Hotel Juárez: Stories, Rooms and Loops?

Author

Daniel Chacón

Publisher

Arte Público Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781558857681

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

4 / 5 (22 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14