Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas by Fernando A. Flores

Flores, whose stories reimagine and reinterpret the region’s existence with peerless style. No one captures the border-its history and imagination, its danger, contradiction, and redemption-like Fernando A. Psychedelic, dazzling stories set in the cracks of the Texas-Mexico borderland, from an iconoclastic storyteller and the author of Tears of the Trufflepig. Flores’s deadpan prose and his surefooted navigation of those overlapping territories, the real and the fantastic, where so much of the best contemporary fiction now lives.' -Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble

'These are marvelously unpredictable stories, anchored by Fernando A.

Fernando was the recipient of a 2014 literary award from the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation, and his fiction and poetry have appeared in various publications since 2006.'In this exuberantly strange story collection, Flores asks: Whose reality? What rules?' -Jean Chen Ho, author of The New York Times Book Review He is the author of the story collection Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas, and his debut novel, Tears of the Trufflepig, will be released May 2019. Flores was born in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, and raised in South Texas. It’s also the perfect introduction for Flores: a wonderfully weird, staggeringly smart new voice in American fiction, and a mythmaker of the highest order.įernando A. Flores’s debut novel, Tears of the Trufflepig, is an absurdist take on life along the border, an ode to the myths of Mexican culture, a dire warning against the one percent’s determination to dictate society’s decline, and a nuanced investigation of loss. Written with infectious verve, bold imagination, and oddball humor, Fernando A. Bellacosa soon finds himself in the middle of an increasingly perilous, surreal, psychedelic journey, where he encounters legends of the long-disappeared Aranaña Indian tribe and their object of worship: the mysterious Trufflepig, said to possess strange powers. Esteban Bellacosa has lived in the border town of MacArthur long enough to know to keep quiet and avoid the dangerous syndicates who make their money through trafficking.īut his simple life starts to get complicated when the swashbuckling investigative journalist Paco Herbert invites him to come to an illegal underground dinner serving filtered animals. Narcotics are legal and there’s a new contraband on the market: ancient Olmec artifacts, shrunken indigenous heads, and filtered animals-species of animals brought back from extinction to clothe, feed, and generally amuse the very wealthy.

Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas by Fernando A. Flores