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Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club
Benjamin Alire Saenz
Cinco Puntos Press
November 2012
On Sale: October 30, 2012
ISBN: 1935955322
EAN: 9781935955320
Kindle: B009WW4USK
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Fiction Family Life
Benjamin Alire Sáenz's stories reveal how all borders--real,
imagined, sexual, human, the line between dark and light,
addict and straight--entangle those who live on either side.
Take, for instance, the Kentucky Club on Avenida Juárez two
blocks south of the Rio Grande. It's a touchstone for each
of Sáenz's stories. His characters walk by, they might go in
for a drink or to score, or they might just stay there for a
while and let their story be told. Sáenz knows that the
Kentucky Club, like special watering holes in all cities, is
the contrary to borders. It welcomes Spanish and English,
Mexicans and gringos, poor and rich, gay and straight, drug
addicts and drunks, laughter and sadness, and even despair.
It's a place of rich history and good drinks and cold beer
and a long polished mahogany bar. Some days it smells like
piss. "I'm going home to the other side." That's a strange
statement, but you hear it all the time at the Kentucky Club.
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