The Bolero of Andi Rowe Format: Paperback

Plummer, Toni Margarita

ISBN 10: 0810127679 / ISBN 13: 9780810127678

Published by University of Chicago press, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Bolero of Andi Rowe Format: Paperback
• Publisher: University of Chicago press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810127679
• ISBN 13: 9780810127678
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Winner of the Miguel Mármol Prize, this collection of inter-related stories delves into the life of Andi Rowe—a young woman of Mexican and Irish heritage—to give an intimate account of one family’s passage from the immigrant story to the American story, and the cycle of loss, adaptation, and rediscovery that is innate to that experience.

Set largely in Los Angeles’s San Gabriel Valley, and crossing generations and borders, these stories focus on the quiet moments between explosions, where tension simmers just beneath the surface. From a Border Patrol agent whose own mother crossed the border illegally to a lonely woman seeking companionship with her hired day-laborer, characters seek revelation in the most ordinary of experiences, their actions filled with humor, longing, and honesty.

In the tradition of Flannery O’Connor, Toni Margarita Plummer explores themes of grace and redemption as each story spirals toward a surprising but inevitable conclusion. The Bolero of Andi Rowe, an impressive work by an exciting new talent, offers a compassionate look at the struggle between meeting cultural expectations and seeking happiness, and the sacrifices and triumphs made along the way.

About the Author

Toni Margarita Plummer is a Chicana writer and winner of the Miguel Mármol Prize. In 2019 her short story "Up in Smoke" won Honorable Mention for the Reynolds Price Prize in Fiction given by the Center for Women Writers. In 2020 she was a finalist for the Tomás Rivera Book Prize. She is a proud contributor to the anthologies East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity, All about Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color, and Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education. Raised in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles, Plummer attended the University of Notre Dame and the Master of Professional Writing Program at USC. After working in book publishing in New York City for a decade, she now freelances as a developmental and acquiring editor and lives in the Hudson Valley.