“A feast of life and culture, Dahlia Season may earn Gurba a place on the list of accomplished Latina writers like Julia Alvarez, Christina Garcia, and Sandra Cisneros.” – Jacklyn Attaway, Rain Taxi “Freud could end up twitching in his grave if he got his hands on Myriam Gurba’s Dahlia” Season. Dahlia Season not only contains the title novella, but also several of Gurba’s acclaimed stories. With Rae’s help, Desiree answers the riddle of her insanity and names her disease.Ĭombining the spark of Michelle Tea, the comic angst of Augusten Burroughs, and the warmth of Sandra Cisneros, Mexican American author Myriam Gurba has created a territory all her own. In college, she finds Rae, an ex-carnie trannyboi, who becomes the June Carter to her Johnny Cash. Plagued by increasingly bizarre thoughts and urges, Desiree convinces herself she’s schizophrenic, despite assurance otherwise. As fellow crazies sense a kinship with her, Desiree attracts a coterie of both wanted and unwanted admirers, including a pair of racist deathrock sisters, a pretty Hispanic girl who did time in California’s most infamous mental asylum, and a transnational stalker with a pronounced limp.Īs high school graduation nears, Desiree’s weirdness turns from charming to alarming. To extinguish her strangeness, her parents ship her to Saint Michael’s Catholic High School, then to Mexico, but neurology can’t be snuffed out so easily: Screwy brain chemistry holds the key to Desiree’s madness. Desiree Garcia knows she’s weird and a weirdo magnet.
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