Review: Basilio Boullosa Stars in the Fountain of Highlandtown by Rafael Alvarez (reviewed by Joesph Crespo)
Alvarez’s fiction simmers with memory continuously.
Alvarez’s fiction simmers with memory continuously.
For every 1,000 word story I filed on some aspect of the city, there were 15 pages of notes that didn’t make it into the article. From those marginal observations have sprung a lot of my fiction.
Kosk-Kosicka offers glimpses of despair and redemption, war and peace, inhumanity and family connection, through the skilled use of imagery, sharp observations, and sometimes wry humor.