Every year, the three Reyes sons and their families drive to the home of the Awful Grandmother and the Little Grandfather in Mexico City. The youngest of many cousins, Lala is also the most curious. Did the Little Grandfather really lose those very ribs in a terrible battle? And why is the Awful Grandmother's special treasure still unfinished?

A novel by the author of "Caramelo".

A collection of short stories which bring to life the sounds and smells of Mexico. From a young girl revealing secrets only an eleven-year-old can know, to a witch woman circling above the village on a pre-dawn flight, the women in these stories offer tales of pure discovery.

Collected here in THE BEST OF CUTTHROAT are works by some of the finest poets, short story writers and nonfiction writers in our country, including Joy Harjo, Rita Dove, Wendell Berry, Carolyn Forche, Martin Espada, Sandra Cisneros, Alison Hawthorne-Deming, Rebecca Seiferle, Richard Jackson, Michael Martone, Patricia Smith, Pam Houston, Linda Hogan and others. This anthology is a distillation of all the fine work that Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts has published in print editions over the past ten years. Cutthroat is a literary journal dedicated to publishing finely-crafted poetry, short...