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Primeras dolencias.Por no haber tomado leches de calostro /Mabel Cuesta --Tar Heel /Carlos Vázquez Cruz --Trece padres /Carlos Villacorta Gonzáles --Aquellas olas /Claudia Salazar Jiménez --La hermana de Fernando /Vera --El silencio bajo el agua /Melanie Márquez Adams --Bloody Mary /Naida Saavedra --Males Crónicos.Meteorito /Liliana Colanzi --La muerte tenía nuestros dedos /Jennifer Thorndike --Los sueños de la razon /Oswaldo Estrada --Dumb /Ramonjo Serra --Dolor crónico /Juan Vitulli --Ideación suicida /Azucena Hernández --Incurables.El discurso del oftalmólogo /Mariana Graciano --La moto /Daniel Quirós --Formas del beso que vendrá /Rey Andújar --Por ahí viene el invierno /Ulises Gonzales --My very own página en blanco /Sebastián Antezana --Enero es el mes más largo /Keila Vall de la Ville --Demonio Atómico /Alexis Iparraguirre The stories in this collection revolve around the world of diseases, which is also that of ailments, disabilities, pain, illnesses. There are in incurable physical and soul diseases, impossible to trace. Childhood traumas, family conflicts that mark us forever. Ailments of the body and mind. Illnesses of a certain age. The problem of being different and leaving the patterns of normality. Surgical procedures, forced treatments. Birth defects. Amputations. And also deterioration, wear, disorders and singularities that do not fit easily in the same label. This volume does not lack love sickness with its flaws and open wounds. Nor are there any missing prostheses, real or metaphorical, with which some of us learn to face life. If emigrating always produces some kind of injury, these twenty stories show not only a varied set of ailments and ills recreated by a group of Latin American immigrants that oscillate between belonging and uprooting in the United States, but also the capacity of literature to portray symbolic violence, long-lasting trauma, non-healing wounds. And the gestures, the expressive silences, the elusive glances that would like, deep down and on the surface, that the world was a little better
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