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Everything Begins & Ends at the Kentucky Club

Everything Begins & Ends at the Kentucky Club

Sáenz, Benjamin Alire

Paperback

General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1935955322
ISBN13: 9781935955320
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Published: Oct 30 2012
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Awards: PEN/Faulkner Award

Stonewall Book Award Honor - American Library Association (ALA)

Sometimes the border is a mirror, sometimes it's an escape, and sometimes it's just the bridge you cross to go home.

All borders entangle those who live on either side, resulting in many a tale. Take, for instance, these seven evocative stories coming out of the Kentucky Club on Avenida Juárez two blocks south of the Rio Grande. It's a touchstone for all who walk by or go in for a drink or to score. The border on which it sits is really no border at all. Like all special watering holes, it is a liminal space, undefined and unclaimed. It welcomes Spanish and English, Mexicans and gringos, poor and rich, gay and straight, drug addicts and drunks, laughter and sadness, and even despair. It's a place of rich history and good drinks and cold beer and a long, polished mahogany bar. Some days it smells like piss. I'm going home to the other side, folks say. That's a strange statement, but you hear it all the time at the Kentucky Club.

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