How Winter Began: Stories (Flyover Fiction), by Joy Castro
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Iréne gives the wealthy businessmen what they want, diving headfirst into the filthy river, thinking only of providing for her baby daughter, Marisa, as the men salivate over her soaked body emerging onto the bank. A young boy tries to befriend the reticent younger sister of the town’s cruelest bully, only to discover the family betrayal behind her quiet countenance. Josefa, a young bride, is executed for murdering the man who raped her. Joy Castro’s How Winter Began traces these and other characters as they seek compassion from each other and themselves.
Thematically linked by the lives of women, especially Latinas, and their experiences of poverty and violence in a white-dominated, wealth-obsessed culture, How Winter Began is a delicately wrought collection of stories. The question at the heart of this riveting book is how or whether to trust one another after the rupture of betrayal.
How Winter Began: Stories (Flyover Fiction), by Joy Castro- Amazon Sales Rank: #393619 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .48" w x 5.51" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 210 pages
Review "To read Joy Castro's stories is to witness the world as beautiful and horrible, light and dark, and to see people who are both lovely and ugly. Joy Castro will hold your heart."—NatalieSypolt, Los Angeles Review (Natalie Sypolt Los Angeles Review)"With these stories, Castro lulls the reader with beautiful, exquisitely crafted sentences. But before we realize it, she reveals the dark contours of her characters’ lives—lives that are often desperate and broken, but not without hope for something better."—Daniel A. Olivas, El Paso Times (Daniel A. Olivas El Paso Times 2015-11-03)"These stories by Joy Castro ask us to notice the invisible: a small boy, the "girl" polishing our silver, the older woman hosting the meeting."—Jeffrey Ann Goudie, Star Tribune (Jeffrey Ann Goudie Star Tribune 2015-11-11)“Joy Castro’s writing is like watching an Acapulco cliff diver. It takes my breath away every time.”—Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros 2015-03-04)“I love the stories in How Winter Began: the taut narratives, the deft portrayal of characters who, though vulnerable, are stunning in their fierce determination. Reading, I had very physical reactions—sharp intakes of breath, stinging eyes, tightening scalp, adrenaline. It was like being gut-punched again and again, but in a very good way.”—Lorraine López, author of Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories (Lorraine López 2015-03-04)
About the Author
Joy Castro is a professor of both English and ethnic studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is the author of two thrillers: Hell or High Water, winner of the 2013 Nebraska Book Award and the National Latino Book Club’s book of the month selection; and Nearer Home. She is also the author of such acclaimed nonfiction as Island of Bones: Essays and The Truth Book: A Memoir, both published by the University of Nebraska Press.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A Room of One's Own By Laurence R. Bachmann How Winter Began is a collection of stories and vignettes (more about this description further on) that reminded me of Virginia Woolf's autobiographical essay about woman writers and the need for women to create a feminine/feminist cannon. To tell their own story for its worth but also to serve as a counterpoint to the lives and experiences expounded in a patriarchal literary tradition. It's fair to say Joy Castro would passionately agree. Her writing is so emphatically female in orientation and feminist in perspective she no doubt will be pigeon holed by some, diminished by others, which is too bad. It is oxymoronically true there is much for men to connect to in the author's mostly feminine point of view.As with all collections, there is an unevenness that is to be expected--no reader is going to enjoy two dozen different stories equally. I found the writer's penchant for "vignettes" more problematic--both frustrating and occasionally actually annoying. There are approximately half dozen two or three page "incidents" that seem to me more scene than story, a snippet recounted and then abruptly ended. More akin to a writing exercise than an actual story. I found them to be more of a tease than a tale. Others will no doubt disagree.There's a panoply of rather predictable types--single mom's, Latinas, liberal academics, English teachers and wives, but the stories are far from expected. A number are quite affecting--a cri de coeur (I don't know the Spanish idiom) that resonates long after you have finished your reading. That resonance and impact is of course the hallmark of fine writing and what makes How Winter Began so very worthwhile.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. The struggle for humanity By KnC Books Personally, I really don't really spend my time counting how many of a story's characters are female, or are members of a minority, or are of different sexual orientation. At the risk of being politically incorrect, I find those considerations secondary - and in the hands of a really skillful writer, almost irrelevant.It wasn't until I read some of the reviews for Joy Castro's "How Winter Began" that I realized that, yes, most of her protagonists are female, and a good part of those are Latina. Although all of the characters live in circumstances that are impacted by their gender, or their ethnicity, or their sexual orientation, the emphasis is on their humanity; the common thread of adversity that most of us face.Breaking down the barriers of discrimination is done by emphasizing the things that make us alike, while acknowledging our differences. The first step is to recognize that there is a common ground. Joy Castro doesn't preach; she simply and distinctly frames a common theme - the grinding weight of economic inequality, and then personalizes it through the eyes of a Latina waitress. It is a deeply personal story, but its quality lies in the universality of its subject."How Winter Began" presents the challenges that we all face: the intricacies of family and personal relationships, the challenges of economic and gender inequality, the stain of discrimination due to race or sexual orientation; and then puts us in the lives of characters who are directly in that path. The individual battles may be different, but the struggle is universal.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Subtle short stories with a big impact By Neal Reynolds It's nothing short of amazing how Joy Castro can pack so much into just two pages as she does in a very few of these stories. All are quite short, the longest one being 18 pages. Even the shortest have compassion and empathy in them.These are mostly targeted for women although a very few are narrated by men. However, they're certainly worth reading by us guys as well.I agree that these should not be read in one or even two sittings. Two or three at the most, I would say, so one can contemplate them after reading. It also pays to read the shorter ones twice because the point of the story is often quite subtle and easy to miss. Above all, do read these if you appreciate the short story form.
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