{"product_id":"the-consequences-stories","title":"The Consequences: Stories","description":"Winner of the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates Prize\nFinalist for the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize\nFinalist for the 2023 Balcones Prize for Fiction\nLonglisted for the 2022 Story Prize\n\nShimmering stories set in California’s Central Valley, the first book in a decade from a virtuoso story writer.\n\n“Her immediate concern was money.” So begins the first story in Manuel Muñoz’s dazzling new collection. In it, Delfina has moved from Texas to California’s Central Valley with her husband and small son, and her isolation and desperation force her to take a risk that ends in profound betrayal.\n\nThese exquisite stories are mostly set in the 1980s in the small towns that surround Fresno. With an unflinching hand, Muñoz depicts the Mexican and Mexican American farmworkers who put food on our tables but are regularly and ruthlessly rounded up by the migra, as well as the quotidian struggles and immense challenges faced by their families. The messy and sometimes violent realities navigated by his characters―straight and gay, immigrant and American-born, young and old―are tempered by moments of surprising, tender care: Two young women meet on a bus to Los Angeles to retrieve husbands who must find their way back from the border after being deported; a gay couple plans a housewarming party that reveals buried class tensions; a teenage mother slips out to a carnival where she encounters the father of her child; the foreman of a crew of fruit pickers finds a dead body and is subsequently―perhaps literally―haunted.\n\nIn The Consequences, obligation can shape, support, and sometimes derail us. It’s a magnificent new book from a gifted writer at the height of his powers.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1644452065\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1644452065.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Muñoz, Manuel\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41449527902266,"sku":"DBV.1644452065.G","price":4.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1644452065-0.jpg?v=1780892628","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-consequences-stories","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}