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Some Final Beauty and Other Stories showcases women and Chicanx characters whose resistance, reconciliation, and strength vigorously affirm community. Author Lisa Alvarez captures the spirit of empowerment in the struggle for justice faced by marginalized communities in a nation defined by politicians from Reagan to Trump.
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The stories in Lisa Alvarez’s new short story collection Some Final Beauty are about real characters living their lives with purpose, resilience, dignity, and strength. Alvarez has a perceptive eye for detail and nuance and can most certainly stick a landing. Each of the eleven stories resolves, not by perfectly tying up every loose end but by allowing the character to hope for a better future.
In the first story of the collection, Laurie walks home with the lyrics to the anti-Fascist protest hymn “Freiheit” carefully folded in her pocket “as if she might have future occasions to…
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