Storyteller with Nike Airs and Other Barrio Stories

From the mesh of fantasy and certainty, both necessary to a good cuento,
comes the Storyteller. Vampires and bars; barrios and teflon deserts; devils and dying; a spurned lover lying down with scorpions–the Storyteller threads her way through the unlikely, the impossible, coming to rest on the solid ground of her people. [Forte-Escamilla’s] people…are written with such complexity and fullness of dimension that they become unforgettable. –Tillie Olsen