Ebook {Epub PDF} Autopsy of an Engine: and Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant by Lolita Hernandez

Autopsy of an Engine and Other Stories From the Cadillac Plant by Lolita Hernandez In a Combination of Practices by Barbara Maloutas Let’s Do by Rebecca Meacham The Optimist by Joshua Mehigan Instrumentality by Ravi Shankar The Send-Away Girl by Barbara Sutton: Leave a . ""Autopsy of an Engine, by Lolita Hernandez, is both dazzling and heartbreaking, a gritty love song about working class Americans and the pulse and rhythms of factory life. With its Latina perspective, this marvelous debut puts Hernandez in the company of Julia Alvarez, Ana Castillo and Sandra Cisneros/5(14).  · 'Autopsy of an Engine and Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant' By Lolita Hernandez Coffee House Press, Softcover, pp., $14 By Armando Ramirez During the decade of Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins.

Hernandez spent 33 years as a UAW worker, most of them at the Cadillac Plant in Detroit, and still is an active member of UAW Local Her story collection, "Autopsy of an Engine," chronicles the closing of Cadillac's Clark Street facility, and is told in a dozen different narrative voices. Featured: Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard by Ron Padgett; Autopsy of an Engine: and Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant by Lolita Hernandez; The Moon in Its Flight by Gilbert Sorrentino; Desire by. 'Autopsy of an Engine and Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant' By Lolita Hernandez Coffee House Press, Softcover, pp., $14 By Armando Ramirez During the decade of the s, with the.

She taught in the Creative writing Department and the Semester in Detroit program at the University of Michigan Residential College. Lolita Hernandez, Lecturer II Emerita, is the author of two collections of short stories: Making Callaloo in Detroit (Wayne State University Press, ), a Michigan Notable Book, and Autopsy of an Engine and Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant (Coffee House Press, ), winner of a PEN Beyond Margins Award. Lolita Hernandez is the author of two collections of short stories: Making Callaloo in Detroit and Autopsy of an Engine and Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant, winner of a PEN Beyond Margins Award. She also is the author of two chapbook collections of poems: Quiet Battles and snakecrossing. Lolita Hernandez's collection of stories about I worked the second shift as its only timekeeper, which had me walk through the entire plant every evening. This plant assembled the bodies of the Caddys that were transported a couple miles to the Clark Street facility for final assembly, where the chassis and engine merged.