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Title: Bengalîes en Norte Amêrica: relatos que retratan la desubicaciôn de los inmigrantes, su vida cotidiana, sus choques con los hijos.(Tierra desacostumbrada)(Reseòa de libro)
Author: Fâtima Urîbarri
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 18, 2010
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Issue: 1290Page: 59(1)

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Title: Nicole Benevenia.(Summer Reading)('Never Let Me Go', 'In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto' and 'Unaccustomed Earth')(Book review)
Author: Nicole Benevenia
Publication: Commonweal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 19, 2009
Publisher: Commonweal Foundation
Volume: 136Issue: 12Page: 29(2)

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This digital document is an article from American Decades: Primary Sources, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 681 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.American Decades Primary Sources provides fresh insight into the decade's most important events, people, and issues. Entries representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements and events from the decade. Also included are concise contextual information, notes about the author and further resources. American Decades Primary Sources includes chapters on the arts, medicine and health, media, education, world events, religion, government and politics, lifestyles and social trends, law and justice, religion, business and the economy, and sports. Included to provide unique perspectives and a wealth of understanding are first hand accounts that include oral histories, songs, speeches, advertisements, TV, play and movie scripts, letters, laws, legal decisions, newspaper articles, cartoonsand recipes. ... Read more

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The four stories in this collection take readers into some of the smaller worlds that make up the larger whole. An odd and unenthusiastic door to door salesman becomes a bit too enmeshed in the neighborhood where he's working. The last request of a wealthy woman results in numerous broken laws and health violations. A young girl finds her own unique place in the cult to which she and her family belong. And two homeless boys learn how to make a will. Each story examines the horror and humor of its character's lives, and follows to see how far those elements go. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Great read: Choking, Aging. Hanging. Train!
This book is great...excellent $3 investment. The setting of each story plays as much of a role as the characters and plot, resulting in stories that coalesce and flow from beginning to end. There's some very fine writing going on here. Weible's prose captures some deeply moving moments and the stories are entertaining throughout. There are a few points where it seems like the author couldn't decide whether to be serious or satirical and ends up with something muddled between the two, as well as a few points that are a little maudlin, but overall this is a solid collection and an enjoyable read.
Jackie
Laguna Niguel, CA

Good purchase!
It took me a while to put my finger on what, if anything, connected these four stories.A lot of short story collections stick to a theme, or may all be set in one specific region or state.Weible's stories seemed all over the map at first, but after reading them I realized that where he (I wasn't sure about the gender of the name, but I went to his website and he is definitely a he) shows consistency is in coming up with stories that skirt the border of unbelievable without actually crossing it and carry a strain of dark humor through them.

For example, Zoar, (possibly the strongest story in this collection) is about a young girl whose family slowly becomes involved with a cult and how she then begins manipulating the beliefs of the people around her for reasons of her own.The story takes place among people on the fringes of regular society.Viking Funeral (my personal favorite) is about a nouveau riche family deciding how to handle their mother's request in her will to have her remains placed in a boat and burned.A Reading of Wills is told from the point of view of a homeless child.Phone Man is about a door to door salesman trying to disengage from the world through his job.The people in these stories are all completely plausible, but the stories are told in such a way as to render their experiences slightly extraordinary.

The last one I mentioned, Phone Man, is the best example of the overall theme I found throughout the book.The main character has a banal, lousy job (he sells long distance service door to door in an impoverished urban neighborhood) that ends up going to a dangerous extreme.It's the main character's actions that gradually and believably push the ordinary to the brink of chaos.That's what this book does consistently and well: it follows the ordinary to the extreme.
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Smith and Ana, practitioners of BDSM in the loosest sense of the term, wake up late one Sunday to discover that Judgment Day has been in full swing since early that morning.At first Smith is pleased to see his more obnoxious neighbors ascending into the sky, but as more and more people are taken to what may or may not be a better place, the earth becomes a tense place for those left.Smith and Ana bar-b-q and take trips to the local pool while around them things begin grinding to a halt before ramping-up towards something more horrible. ... Read more

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A wealthy woman's last request fuels the already prominent displays of reckless self-indulgence among her children, and creates one final headache for her lover/attorney. ... Read more

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After escaping their foster home, two boys settle into the rules and laws governing a group of homeless children living along a river at the city's edge. ... Read more

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After his father dies ironically, Chris' mother suffers a mental collapse that renders her as useless to the family as their deceased patriarch.This leaves Chris to look after his four younger siblings while attending med school.Emotionally volatile, profane, and completely unstable in regards to the devastation of his parents, Chris daydreams about wrongfully medicating the classmates who pick on his younger, overweight brother, Jason, carts his physically disabled baby sister around on his back, and tries to keep pace with the twins, Alex and Kevin, all while being a generally furious person, incapable of controlling his emotions. ... Read more

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A young girl watches as her family becomes founding members of a Zionist cult, and soon finds her own unique place in the religion. ... Read more

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A drug-addled and unenthusiastic door to door salesman finds himself being drawn into the neighborhood where he works. ... Read more

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Mike works a dead-end job with Hector, a terrorist of the fast food industry; he pines for Kate, arm candy for the muscle-strapped Chad; and comes home day in and day out to an apartment ravaged by the activities of his roommate, a spy.He'd be fine with all this if only his roommate's girlfriend, Lucinda, would stop kidnapping him, and Candace, the girl who works across the street at the ear piercing place, would knock off all the sexual innuendo when she orders a burrito. ... Read more

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Brilliant, enjoyable satire; a real talent here
Weible's a talent waiting to be discovered.His stories are hilarious, cutting satires of the usual connections authors contrive.I haven't laughed as hard, or enjoyed a short story as much, in quite some time.

Why does this **** show up when I type in Thomas Pynchon??
No Pynchon?To add insult to injury, a Pynchon search brings up this sub-literate c***?Please.

guerilla tacos y burritos
This was a cool story, kinda surreal.Weird cast of characters--Mike is the ultimate observer of Man. ... Read more

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Together, Jen and Smith have a new English Bulldog and a new apartment.Individually they have an eating and drinking problem (Smith), a spending problem (Jen), and a rationalization problem that encourages them to each let the other's vices slide in exchange for continuing their own.Their weekly appointments at obedience school yield no form of obedience from their dog, Kilgore, but mercifully are canceled and refunded after the instructor crushes a small dog to death.Smith is swelling in size and Jen is filling their tiny apartment with useless furniture when they receive an invitation to the funeral for Kilgore's deceased classmate. ... Read more

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A childless couple sleeps in on Judgment Day; a family tries to cope with the loss of a patriarch and attempted stand-up comedy; obedience school for a new pet leads to obesity and a funeral; a spy as a roommate makes dating difficult.In each of these captivating stories the characters confront the mayhem of lives that are normally absurd and funny for all the wrong reasons. ... Read more

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Great stories, would love to read more from Weible.
Weible's stories are hugely fun to read.One aspect of these stories that particularly appeals to me is the tendency for something to actually happen in each one. There's a climax.So many short stories go for a flat, slice-of-life, plot-less structure--these don't do that.First Born is both incredibly sad and incredibly funny.My Roommate the Spy is absolutely manic and original.Obedience School does what especially well-crafted satire is supposed to do by managing not to be obvious satire.Judgment Day is a story about couples living through the apocalypse that is touching, and noteworthy for the fact that it avoids all the usual clichés found in stories about either couples or apocalypses.

I can't find anything else by this author, but I hope to see more in the future.

Funny, quirky, unpredictable - highly recommend
I liked every one of these stories. They're all pretty different from each other. I read a lot of short stories and I liked these because there is NOTHING predictable about them. I had originally bought just one (My Roommate the Spy) but I came back and got the whole collection. Highly recommend.
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