Valleyesque

No one captures the border – its history and imagination, its danger, contradiction, and redemption – like Fernando A. Flores, whose stories reimagine and reinterpret the region’s existence with peerless style. In his immersive, uncanny borderland, things are never what they seem: a world where the sun is both rising and setting, and where conniving possums efficiently take over an entire town and rewrite its history. The stories in ‘Valleyesque’ dance between the fantastical and the hyperreal with dexterous, often hilarious flair. A dying Frdric Chopin stumbles through Ciudad Jurez in the aftermath of his mother’s death, attempting to recover his beloved piano that was seized at the border, while a muralist is taken on a psychedelic journey by an airbrushed Emiliano Zapata T-shirt.