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"
Maria, Maria is a collection and a cosmology, sentences bursting with color, pages brimming with invention. Beguiling and playful, Marytza K. Rubio's writing is endlessly enjoyable to read. A striking new voice."
-Charles Yu, author of Interior Chinatown"
Maria, Maria is an exquisitely crafted collection featuring brainy Latinx outsiders with tons of spirit. They are warriors and lovers, attuned to the forces of darkness and beauty, and Rubio tells their stories with a masterful style and wit."
-Héctor Tobar, author of Deep Down Dark and The Last Great Road Bum"About halfway through every story in this startling, brilliant collection, I found myself shouting 'HOW DARE THIS STORY BE SO WILD?!' Read if you love deeply original tales filled with magic and worldbuilding, read if you love lush and evocative prose-but be warned, if you read this book in public, you might just start yelling out loud in delight, too."
-Amber Sparks, author of And I Do Not Forgive You"Reading Marytza K. Rubio's debut is like discovering the one album and band that gets you through; it will make you walk into an open field and just wait for the mothership, because you'll be ready."
-Fernando A. Flores, author of Tears of the Trufflepig and Valleyesque"
Maria, Maria is pure magic: fearless, funny, and endlessly original. Full of dark wit and sparkling charm, this is a shimmering portal of a book. Marytza K. Rubio is an absolute master of the fantastic."
-Kimberly King Parsons, author of Black Light
About the author
Marytza Rubio has an MFA in creative writing: Latin America and was a Bread Loaf scholar. She is the founder of Makara Center for the Arts, a nonprofit library in her hometown of Santa Ana, California.
Summary
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION Conjuring entrancing tales of Mexican American mystics and misfits, Marytza K. Rubio shatters the boundaries of reality with this fiercely imaginative debut.
