The riots / Danielle Cadena Deulen.

Still life with flashing lights -- Theft -- Aperture -- Mercy -- Early adulthood -- Soliloquies with strangers -- Still life with oaks -- Intervention -- Summer pageant -- Muse -- Tornado -- Still life with sparrow -- After the flood -- Adolescence -- Fainting -- Still life with summer wasps -- The riots -- Cadena -- Childhood -- Still life with doldrums -- Prodigal daughter -- Hindsight -- Still life with unfinished house -- A momentary stay against confusion.

Constantly surprising, these personal essays explore the attractions and dangers of intimacy and the violence that often arises in close relationships. Deulen's artful storytelling and dialogue also draw the reader into complicated questions about class, race, and gender. In ""Aperture, "" she considers how she has contributed to her autistic brother's isolation from family and from the world. ""Theft"" investigates her mother's romantic stories about conquistadors in the context of the Mexican heritage of her biracial family. Throughout the collection Deulen experiments formally, alternating t.

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