Ire'ne Lara Silva

Rooted in a Chicana/Latina/indigenous geographic and cultural sensibility, the stories in flesh to bone are concerned with borders of all kinds--particularly the physical borders of the American Southwest-- and the potential for transformation and healing. The nine stories in write and rewrite myth from a woman's of view, as they tell stories of women and children whose lives are shaped by the social, political, ecological, and economic disruption...