Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Perelló (Valencia)
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Donde los libros
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Water, its use and abuse, trickles through Great American Desert, a story collection by Terese Svoboda that spans the misadventures of the prehistoric Clovis people to the wanderings of a forlorn couple around a pink pyramid in a sci-fi prairie. In 'Dutch Joe,' the eponymous hero sees the future from the bottom of a well in the Sandhills, while a woman tries to drag her sister back from insanity in 'Dirty Thirties.' In 'Bomb Jockey,' a local Romeo disposes of leaky bombs at South Dakota’s army depot, while a family quarrels in 'Ogallala Aquifer' as a thousand trucks dump chemical waste from a munitions depot next to their land. Bugs and drugs are devoured in 'Alfalfa,' a disc jockey talks her way out of a knifing in 'Sally Rides,' and an updated Pied Piper begs parents to reconsider in 'The Mountain.' The consequences of the land’s mistreatment is epitomized in the final story by a discovery inside a pink pyramid. In her arresting and inimitable style, Svoboda’s delicate handling of the complex dynamics of family and self seeps into every sentence of these first-rate short stories about what we do to the world around us-and what it can do to us.
