Descripción
Las historias de Pilar Melero enlazan bellamente el pasado y el presente a través del rescate de mitos y leyendas del acervo popular del norte de México y de su reinserción en el contexto de la experiencia del inmigrante y de su búsqueda de identidad. A través de una prosa de gran resonancia lírica y flexibilidad creativa, estas narraciones nos ofrecen una visión conmovedora. honesta y esperanzadora, de la experiencia del trasplante cultural a los Estados Unidos y de las pérdidas y ganancias de los incontables individuos que a diario navegan entre dos culturas y luchan por validar su espacio en la sociedad.
Nayla Chehade.
Pilar Melero’s Mythic Rocks is a stunning collection. Generous in scope. intimate in purpose, and fierre with reality. these lyrical and radiant stories are informed by a shape-shifting. truth-telling, mythic imagination. Like the swinging bridge in Melero’s childhood Mexican village of Atotonilco. they magically transport the reader to another world. “filled with the aroma of breads baked for Holy Week…the smell of incense etched on the skin of… memory.” Here. an old man plays a harp to keep the bees alive. a woman enters the past via a historical exhibit. a group of visitors is guided up an enchanted mountain by a ghostly woman. ah immigrant girl shatters her roommate’s stereotypical expectations. and ler own. Shot through with luminous insights. these stories are both praise-songs to the place that made her and a record of the pain and struggle inherent in the immigrant experience. Melero has an ability to capture and describe the relationship between interior and exterior worlds in a way that is simultaneously grounded in the rocks. rivers. and mountains she knows so well and are filled with mystery. Everywhere illuminated by an alert, searching female intelligence, these stories ultimately explore the mysteries of language and identity — language lost. language learned and language recreated and made Melero’s own. Passionate, powerful. original. this collection does indeed “make memory.” offering proof that myth is alive and well in the America, and proof that stories can not only tell us who we are. but heal as, heal our world.
Alison Townsend.
Editorial: Ediciones LA & GO.
ISBN: 9781615392704
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