Lisa Alvarez

Some Final Beauty and Other Stories showcases characters whose resistance, reconciliation, and strength vigorously affirm community. The eleven stories, loosely linked, explore self-discovery, rebellion, and solidarity as complex personalities and values meet at the intersection of art, love, relationships, activism, and identity from post-WWII to today. Gustavo Arellano calls Lisa Alvarez’s Southern California one of “melancholy and beauty, cities and canyons, insurrections and mariachis and secrets kept and spoken.”

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