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The River Runs: Stories
Winner of the Bronze Award in the 2024 International Latino Book Awards for Best Collection of Short Stories (English).
Thomas Ray Garcia's debut short story collection reimagines the Texas-Mexico border as a site of belonging and becoming. These 11 stories feature characters facing the realities of living alongside a river running through their countries, communities, and cultures.
Along the Rio Grande, river crossings lead to cross country runs and astral projections. A pregnant teenager learns about motherhood from a curandera. A scholarship boy grapples with his fronterizo identity. The sister of a border patrol agent lives in fear of deportation. A child looks into the eye of a drone and sees his family anew.
The River Runs: Stories won the Américo Paredes Literary Arts Prize for Fiction sponsored by FlowerSong Press from McAllen, Texas and Prickly Pear Publishing from Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Thomas Ray Garcia's debut short story collection reimagines the Texas-Mexico border as a site of belonging and becoming. These 11 stories feature characters facing the realities of living alongside a river running through their countries, communities, and cultures.
Along the Rio Grande, river crossings lead to cross country runs and astral projections. A pregnant teenager learns about motherhood from a curandera. A scholarship boy grapples with his fronterizo identity. The sister of a border patrol agent lives in fear of deportation. A child looks into the eye of a drone and sees his family anew.
The River Runs: Stories won the Américo Paredes Literary Arts Prize for Fiction sponsored by FlowerSong Press from McAllen, Texas and Prickly Pear Publishing from Santa Fe, New Mexico.
139 pages, Paperback
Published April 5, 2023
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March 29, 2025
This is an excellent collection of short stories centered around the Rio Grande Valley with the river at its core. It's an easy and quick read, probably in one sitting, but the stories just might resonate with you, especially if you're a valley native.
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