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Oscar Cásares

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Oscar Cásares


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Brownsville, TX, The United States
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Oscar Cásares is the author of Brownsville, a collection of stories that was an American Library Association Notable Book of 2004, and is now included in the curriculum at several American universities, and the novel Amigoland. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Copernicus Society of America, and the Texas Institute of Letters. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he teaches creative writing at the University of Texas in Austin, where he lives.

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Where We Come From

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Amigoland

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Amigoland: A Novel

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“Being older doesn't mean you stop making mistakes, it only means your mistakes can hurt more people”
Oscar Cásares, Where We Come From

“Like opening an album or looking at a framed photo, these images make us want to believe we know everything there is to know about a person, a stranger or even someone in our family, our mother or father, but of course we never do.”
Oscar Cásares, Where We Come From

“For them everything had a simple solution. IF there was a problem that could be fixed, by whatever means, then that could be fixed, by whatever means, then there was nothing to worry about. They were geniuses of the world when it came to finding another way. And it if turned out the problem had no solution, no way of it being mended or substituted with something else, no way of being glued or duct-taped, then there was nothing to worry about either. Ni modo, they said and moved on. They never stopped to consider what would happen next, after the solved or unsolved problem brought a whole new set of problems. Then what? For that they had no solutions. They came with so little it was only ever about today, and tomorrow was tomorrow, another day to worry about when it arrived, if it arrived. Life, when one lived on this side of the river, was almost never that easy. But try explaining that to your cleaning woman.”
Oscar Cásares, Where We Come From

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