Texas Border Business
Edinburg, TX— The Dustin Michael Sekula Memorial Library invites the public to meet local author Shoney Flores. The author will promote his book – Parts: A Novel — at the library on Thursday, May 20th from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Set in deep, humid South Texas — where Mexico is a ten-minute drive away and culturally characterizes the region – the novel Parts tells the story of men of Mexican heritage working in the auto parts industry, who create a suffocating atmosphere of machismo and innuendo. The novel’s narrator, an auto parts stocker and driver unable to quit his job out of a sense of obligation to his family, seeks out the written word as a means to escape, which contrasts sharply with the pelado environment where he works and allows for a closer inspection of the pelado, low class and vulgar, archetype inside the walls of the warehouse.
Shoney Flores’s fiction, essays, and literary translations have appeared in American Book Review, Texas Review, Goliad Review and others. He was born in Edinburg and currently lives there with his wife and son, is an instructor of creative writing, legal writing, and rhetoric and composition at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.Parts is his debut novel, and he is currently working on his second.
The event is free, but registration is required. To register, contact Raúl Martínez at 956-383-6246. The Dustin Michael Sekula Memorial Library is located at 1906 South Closner in Edinburg.
