{"product_id":"dusk-dust-9781938235559","title":"Dusk \u0026 Dust","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet along the U.S.-Mexico border, \u003cem\u003e Dusk \u0026amp; Dust\u003c\/em\u003e introduces the voice of a \"boy straddled on the valley of two geographies.\" With a keen eye, gentle humor, and great empathy, Esteban Rodr guez's debut collection explores the lives of the generations who have made their homes in a landscape too often neglected and forgotten. Like the region they portray--relentless, unsympathetic, singed with uncertainty--these poems are marked with a visceral beauty. The aroma of cattle mingles with steaming tamales, and carnival organs play behind telenovelas in this richly conjured and mercurial world. Through the eyes of his luchador mask, with a foot planted firmly on either side of the fence, the young speaker grapples with a host of cultural and familial expectations, a tenuous grasp on his family's language, and his own burgeoning identity. Funny and poignant, \u003cem\u003eDusk \u0026amp; Dust\u003c\/em\u003e lays out a labyrinth of cultural expectations, and, with a voice as clear as it is unique, illuminates a world that seeks to be remembered and lived.\u003c\/p\u003e LA PULGA  Sunday morning strolls along the frontage road  like a censer-swinging priest, scrapes its sunlight  against the corroded chain-link fence, between  the lines of traffic overflowing from the entrance,  where I already taste the scent of wet cilantro,  grilled onions, mixed meat, and eggs sizzled in a haze  of dust-shuffled heat; in a blanket of black exhaust  crawling across the pot-hole-riddled parking lot,  and through the rows of sunburned cars nudging  each other like buzzards on a corpse they've yet  to eat. I endure my grandfather's crooked parking,  the constant honking, the backseat acoustics of thin  music sprinkled in the air, those far-off plastic  speakers blaring songs with unpredictable trumpets,   and Spanish \u003cem\u003egritos \u003c\/em\u003eslapped against my English-only ears.... \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Esteban Rodríguez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hub City Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.3lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781938235559","brand":"Hub City Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42758945144969,"sku":"9781938235559","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_228ed52b-27e9-436c-9b18-cae26c3622c9.jpg?v=1720499907","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/dusk-dust-9781938235559","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}