New Testaments: Stories

"Texas- and Mexico-based author Dagoberto Gilb doesn’t care about ivory towers, but he does know how to build them. He started writing short stories while working a construction job at the University of Texas at El Paso and has been going strong ever since. The stories in his latest collection focus on working-class Mexican Americans and are written with Gilb’s signature realism, which manages to be both gritty and beautiful. Looking for accomplished, unpretentious fiction that celebrates real people? This is your man."