From Here You Can Almost See the End of the Desert
by Aaron Michael Morales
with an introduction by Luis Alberto Urrea
Praise for Aaron Morales:
“Morales seduces then abducts and we are carried away by the torrents of his endless sentences until we come up for air, gasping and astonished. This is not to say that these stories […] are prettified tales. Indeed, violence is the skin of these stories. Yet, we understand and we ache and that’s the best argument for reading fiction. So hear me and pay attention: Aaron Michael Morales is poised to startle.”
— Helena María Viramontes
“[Aaron Michael Morales] is a genius at putting the reader in a narrative bind before anyone knows what happened. This is subversive and sly work, as knowing in its effect as it is exciting to read. For all its thrilling nature, and for all his hard-edge style, this is a deeply moral effort. Morales wrestles with nothing less than the parameters of the human soul. Community, responsibility, even love are here, while eros, violence, fear, dread and a dark exultation fly through the nightscapes of these pieces.”
— Luis Alberto Urrea
