Ebook {Epub PDF} Love War Stories by Ivelisse Rodriguez

“An insightful look into girlhood, race, and the wounds of growing up, Love War Stories is a searing collection. Rodriguez has a rare gift for describing the minutiae of contemporary life, the heartaches as well as the dangers, without flinching.” —Mark Haber, Brazos Bookstore. Interested in reading this book with a group? Download group discussion questions for Love War Stories here!Availability: In stock. The story that held up a mirror was Love Wars, which was about the culture and generational wars between mothers and daughters. Ivelisse Rodriguez's writing is clear-eyed and clean, authoritative, tough, and tender at the same time. I loved it and recommend it. Great for syllabi in women's studies, Latin American Studies, and fiction writing courses/5(41). Ivelisse Rodriguez’s (she/her) debut short story collection is Love War Stories (Feminist Press, ), a PEN/Faulkner finalist and a Foreword Reviews INDIES finalist. In Love War Stories, love is a battleground, littered with cautionary tales of characters on the cusp of romance who covet, wrestle with, and fight to subvert their familial and cultural legacies of suffering from, and for, love.

Love War Stories by Ivelisse Rodriguez is a short story collection that aimed to dissect the concept of love and show the many layers and aspects of it. I am a fan of short stories and this is one that is now one of my favorites. Every story brings up a new question about love and exposes another complexity. "Love War Stories" is a Foreword INDIES finalist in Multicultural (Adult Fiction). Ivelisse Rodriguez's "Love War Stories" is a bold collection that marks the shortfall between romantic illusions and reality. Here, love—abusive, storied, unspoken, obsessive, or enduring—is rendered in memorable forms. Whether narrated by a. Ivelisse Rodriguez's collection, Love War Stories, reports from the front lines of the never-ending battle between romantic ideals and the reality of gendered violence. These intimate tales follow a series of young Puerto Rican women as they navigate the shaky terrain of teenage crushes, sexual awakening, and grown-up commitment.

Love War Stories: An Interview with Ivelisse Rodríguez on Her Debut Short Story Collection. by Néstor David Pastor. Last month saw the release of Love War Stories, the debut short story collection of Ivelisse Rodríguez. In it, the Arecibo-born, Holyoke-raised Rodríguez explores love in all its forms, for better or worse, as it relates to the premise that Puerto Rican women are conditioned, from an early age, to pursue romance through an idealized, almost fatalistic lens. Love War Stories by Ivelisse Rodriguez is a short story collection that aimed to dissect the concept of love and show the many layers and aspects of it. I am a fan of short stories and this is one that is now one of my favorites. Every story brings up a new question about love and exposes another complexity. The story that held up a mirror was Love Wars, which was about the culture and generational wars between mothers and daughters. Ivelisse Rodriguez's writing is clear-eyed and clean, authoritative, tough, and tender at the same time. I loved it and recommend it. Great for syllabi in women's studies, Latin American Studies, and fiction writing courses.