The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue
by Manuel Muñoz
"Ten stories from the Central Valley, where tenderness and hard work share a fence."
In the small towns around Fresno, Muñoz's characters — farmworkers, hairdressers, sons who left and came back — carry griefs too heavy to name and loves too dangerous to show. Quietly magnificent stories about queer longing and Mexican-American life in California's heartland.
Worth knowing
Muñoz was awarded a MacArthur 'genius' Fellowship — the quiet master of the American short story.
