New Chicana Tales from the Center of a Deadly Donut:
Olga García Echeverría’s Falling Angels: Cuentos y Poemas
(Los Angeles, CA) – In Falling Angels: Cuentos y Poemas East Los Angeles comes to life with a cast of kooky and provocative characters in this code-switching collection of female-centered poetry and prose. Olga García Echeverría gives voice to the working class with protagonists such as young winged women, bilingual cockroaches, and dead kleptomaniacs, among others. Politically astute and hilarious, these 6 stories and 22 poems tackle hardcore realities of immigration, language, city life, family drama, and Chicano culture and consciousness. Written in Spanish, English, and Spanglish. Published by Calaca Press (San Diego, CA) and Chibcha Press (Long Beach, CA).
Olga García Echeverría’s Falling Angels: Cuentos y Poemas
(Los Angeles, CA) – In Falling Angels: Cuentos y Poemas East Los Angeles comes to life with a cast of kooky and provocative characters in this code-switching collection of female-centered poetry and prose. Olga García Echeverría gives voice to the working class with protagonists such as young winged women, bilingual cockroaches, and dead kleptomaniacs, among others. Politically astute and hilarious, these 6 stories and 22 poems tackle hardcore realities of immigration, language, city life, family drama, and Chicano culture and consciousness. Written in Spanish, English, and Spanglish. Published by Calaca Press (San Diego, CA) and Chibcha Press (Long Beach, CA).
Have you heard the word on Falling Angels?
“…each of Olga’s cuentos stands out in bold testimony to our flourishing as a people in Urban América. These are puro chicano stories, tales of urban survival drawn from its most vulnerable and visionary inhabitants.” –Cherríe Moraga, author of Loving in the War Years
“…The women and men in these pages make us think, laugh, and feel proud; they are conocidos speaking in real speak. Without a doubt, this unique collection establishes Olga as a lengualistic code-switching queen!”
—Elba R. Sánchez, escritora and editor
About the Author: Olga García Echeverría is a Los Angeles-based writer and teacher. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso. This is her first book.
Falling Angels: Cuentos y Poemas by Olga García Echevería
ISBN 978-0-9717035-6-8/ $14.00+S/H / Perfectbound
Flipbook (one side stories/one side poetry) / 136 pages
Cover and illustrations by Ricardo Islas.
“…each of Olga’s cuentos stands out in bold testimony to our flourishing as a people in Urban América. These are puro chicano stories, tales of urban survival drawn from its most vulnerable and visionary inhabitants.” –Cherríe Moraga, author of Loving in the War Years
“…The women and men in these pages make us think, laugh, and feel proud; they are conocidos speaking in real speak. Without a doubt, this unique collection establishes Olga as a lengualistic code-switching queen!”
—Elba R. Sánchez, escritora and editor
About the Author: Olga García Echeverría is a Los Angeles-based writer and teacher. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso. This is her first book.
Falling Angels: Cuentos y Poemas by Olga García Echevería
ISBN 978-0-9717035-6-8/ $14.00+S/H / Perfectbound
Flipbook (one side stories/one side poetry) / 136 pages
Cover and illustrations by Ricardo Islas.