Zigzagger: Stories

By: Muñoz, Manuel

Mu oz's breakthrough collection, reissued with a new foreword by author Helena Mar a Viramontes

Manuel Mu oz's first collection of stories goes beyond the traditional family myths of Mexican American literature and the image of California's Central Valley as a lush world of rural tranquility, instead exploring the constant struggle of characters against their physical and personal surroundings. A teenage boy learns the consequences of succumbing to the lure of a town outsider; a young farm worker attempts to hide his supervision of a group of children from the town police; a father must expose his own secrets after his son is found murdered in a highway motel. Experiencing conflicts of family and sexuality and the pain of loss and memory, the characters in Zigzagger seek to reconcile themselves with the rural towns of their upbringing--places that, by nature, are bordered by loneliness.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810148951
• ISBN13: 9780810148956
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"