![]() ![]() ![]() How do you make that particular magic happen? But, messed up as they are, you portray them all with an incredible level of empathy. Q: These stories contain many damaged souls: lost mothers, abandoned daughters, isolated cousins, lonely half-siblings, deadbeat dads. Her stories are potently steeped in their physical landscapes: Whether it’s the author’s ancestral home of northern New Mexico, a fictional trailer park drawn from Pahrump, Nevada, or fancy California blueberry fields, the sense of place jostles fiercely for space with pitch-perfect characters, while Valdez Quade’s incisive turns of phrase thrum with both darkness and humor. Some of these stories found early homes in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories and Guernica, and last year Valdez Quade was chosen as one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 by none other than Andre Dubus III. Daneet Steffens ’82 interviewed Kirstin Valdez Quade ’98, whose first short-story collection, Night at the Fiestas, was published this spring. ![]()
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