Six Years of Impertinent Behaviour

Short stories about travel and living abroad, from Egypt to Japan, Mexico to Scotland. A busker in Edinburgh, a girl who haunts her own mother, a backpacker nearly arrested in Mexico City Airport, a teacher in Japan who cannot save one of her students from an abusive situation. Moving and provocative, subtle and haunting.

AM Montes de Oca is the pen name of Dr. Amanda Stanford. She was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, and has earned both her MSc and PhD at the University of Edinburgh. She has won two writing awards for her short stories; the Keith Wright Prize from the University of Strathclyde, and the Sloan Prize from the University of Edinburgh. She has taught English (literature and composition) in the United States, Mexico, Egypt, and Japan. After spending the past eleven years living on four continents and travelling to more than thirty countries, A M Montes de Oca has now settled in Charlotte, NC, where she teaches writing classes and tends to stare at people a little too intently.