Thursday, June 13, 2019

Latest Anaya offering defies genre

Grzelachowski's Store in Puerto de Luna, an old Billy the Kid haunt.
(Quay County Sun) If I had to assign a genre to Rudolfo Anaya’s latest book, “Chupacabra Meets Billy The Kid,” I’d say it’s of the Western / science fiction / fantasy / Chicano literature / historical fiction genre, as if there’s such a thing.
Maybe “unique” is a better description, because that’s certainly the way this outside-the-box tale reads.
And to the contrary, I’d describe its Guadalupe and Lincoln county settings as realistically descriptive … well, except for the wormhole along the Pecos. Continued

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