First published 2021
This anthology brings together Mexican American voices who write from the borderlands of identity. The collection includes essays, poems, and short stories that examine what it means to live between worlds. Writers like Sandra Cisneros, Reyna Grande, and Francisco Cantú contribute works that explore family dynamics caught between tradition and change, between Spanish and English, between past and present. The pieces reveal how Mexican American families navigate competing values and shifting identities. Some characters adapt their heritage to new circumstances while others abandon old ways entirely. The writers expose the tensions of geographic, linguistic, and cultural borders. They write about wounds from the past and victories in the present, about life and death, about gender and tradition. These stories and essays capture the contemporary Mexican American experience while revealing the universal complexity of living between different worlds. The collection shows how immigrants and their children embody a quintessentially American experience of reinvention and adaptation.
Genres: anthologies, american-fiction, american, 21st-century
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, reinvention
Setting: Borderlands
Period: Contemporary
262 pages · Hardcover · Texas A&M Press and The Wittliff Collections