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Wryly humorous literary short stories about the California-Mexico border. Favorably reviewed in New York Times Book Review. A true gift for the comic and the bizarre-- Ploughshares.
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Mexican-American Border Region--Social life and customs--Fiction, California--Social life and customs--Fiction.
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1994
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PS3563.O645I37 1994eb
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813/.54
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Mexican-American Border Region--Social life and customs--Fiction, California--Social life and customs--Fiction.
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Igloo among Palms
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The Iowa Short Fiction Award
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Igloo among Palms
Rod Val Moore
University of Iowa Press Iowa City
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The publication of this book is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C., a federal agency.
University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242
Copyright 1994 by Rod Val Moore
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher. This is a work of fiction; any resemblance to actual events or persons is entirely coincidental. Printed on acid-free paper
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Moore, Rod, 1952 Igloo among palms / Rod Val Moore. p. cm.(The Iowa short fiction award) ISBN 0-87745-475-2 1. City and town lifeCaliforniaFiction. 2. City and town lifeMexicoFiction. 3. Mexican-American Border RegionFiction. I. Title. II. Series. PS3563.0645137 1994 813'.54dc2094-22499 CIP
01 00 99 98 97 96 95 94 c 5 4 3 2 1
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For Lisa
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Contents
Grimshaw's Mexico
1
Igloo Among Palms
17
Thing One and Thing Two
36
Liquid, Fricative, Glide
54
Miss Mustachioed Bat
70
Planet of the Evangelists
89
An Aztec Sphinx
104
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Acknowledgments
Stories in this collection appeared, in slightly different form, in the following publications: "Grimshaw's Mexico" in Prairie Schooner and "Igloo among Palms" in the Western Humanities Review.
For their encouragement and assistance, I am especially grateful to Kate Haake, Bill Wallis, Margaret Freeman, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Grimshaw's Mexico
There are three stories in Sergeant Grimshaw's life which, if I string them together, may approximate a single story. The first one begins with an overworked Grimshaw being ordered by his precinct captain to take the next day off, to relax and go to the beach or the circus or the mountains. Grimshaw gladly accepted. And because Mrs. Grimshawher first name was Audreywas sick with her summer allergies and had been pestering her husband to drive her to a certain obscure, vaguely illegal medical clinic in Baja, he chose to use his day off to finally get her down there and get her the medicine she claimed to need.
Years later, Grimshaw could recall just how Audrey had looked that day: simultaneously dark and glittering, dressed in black and
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gray tweed, eyes sparkling with what looked like allergy but really was a film of tears. Her loose charcoal suit was out of fashion even then, in 1952, and the bone-colored snood restraining her mass of hair and the tears in the mascara made her look like a war bride who had never been told about V-J Day.
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