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A new, combined edition of flash fiction, traditional short stories, and short memoir essays by the prize-winning author, Eileen Clemens Granfors. This book includes writing prompts, great for emerging writers.

A coming-of-age prequel to "Some Rivers End on the Day of the Dead," we follow the struggle of Carmen Principia to achieve her dreams, despite her impoverished beginnings as the Pinata-Maker's daughter in San Ysidro, California. She has a college degree in mind; her mother wants her to hone her skills in what else? pinata-making Add relationships with men and a challenging roommate. The results are an emotional, sometimes comic, adventure in learning about the real world beyond the ivory tower of the U.

Like "Esperanza Rising" and "Rules of Attraction," this coming-of-age novel, "Some Rivers End on The Day of the Dead" follows a Hispanic teen, Marisol. She and her mother are on the run from their home in Tijuana, Mexico. Her father, investigating the drug wars as a journalist, has been murdered. But Marisol's new home is a riverbed camp in a rich California suburb. A wildfire separates Marisol from her mother and her school. Cut off and alone, she challenges herself to find a way to reunite with her family and to celebrate the Day of the Dead in Mexico to honor her father with the proper...