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A woman is engulfed by a used-clothing warehouse with a life of its own, and a grieving mother breathlessly chronicles the demise of a town decimated by violence. In two separate stories, queso dip and musical rhythms are bottled up and sold for mass consumption. And in the final tale, Flores pieces together the adventures of a young Lee Harvey Oswald as he starts a music career in Texas.   Swinging between satire and surrealism, grief and joy, Valleyesque is a boundary- and border-pushing collection from a one-of-a-kind stylist and voice. With the visceral imagination that made his debut novel, Tears of the Trufflepig, a cult classic, Flores brings his vision of the border to life-and beyond.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49745019961617,"sku":"NGR9780374604134","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50478897234193,"sku":"CIN0374604134G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50543428141329,"sku":"CIN0374604134VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51001808290065,"sku":"NIN9780374604134","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53364028113169,"sku":"GOR014879810","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53366025978129,"sku":"GOR014881360","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0374604134.jpg?v=1750878649"},{"product_id":"tears-of-the-trufflepig-book-fernando-a-flores-9780374538330","title":"Tears of the Trufflepig","description":"Near future. South Texas. Narcotics are legal and there’s a new contraband on the market: ancient Olmec artifacts, shrunken indigenous heads, and filtered animals - species of animals brought back from extinction to clothe, feed, and generally amuse the very wealthy. Esteban Bellacosa has lived in the border town of MacArthur long enough to know to keep quiet and avoid the dangerous syndicates who make their money through trafficking.  But his simple life starts to get complicated when the swashbuckling investigative journalist Paco Herbert invites him to come to an illegal underground dinner serving filtered animals. Bellacosa soon finds himself in the middle of an increasingly perilous, surreal, psychedelic journey, where he encounters legends of the long-disappeared Aranaña Indian tribe and their object of worship: the mysterious Trufflepig, said to possess strange powers.  Written with infectious verve, bold imagination, and oddball humor, Fernando A. Flores’s debut novel, Tears of the Trufflepig, is an absurdist take on life along the border, an ode to the myths of Mexican culture, a dire warning against the one percent’s determination to dictate society’s decline, and a nuanced investigation of loss. It’s also the perfect introduction to Flores: a wonderfully weird, staggeringly smart new voice in American fiction, and a mythmaker of the highest order.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49914080461073,"sku":"GOR010337465","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50431398478097,"sku":"CIN0374538336VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50689330905361,"sku":"GOR011628711","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51474337530129,"sku":"NIN9780374538330","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52103547388177,"sku":"CIN0374538336G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0374538336.jpg?v=1751391039"},{"product_id":"brother-bronte-book-fernando-a-flores-9780374604165","title":"Brother Bronte","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2026 PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eOne of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eKirkus'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eBest of Fiction 2025.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by the\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eTown \u0026amp; Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eand\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlta.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Flores's style has an exhilarating punk, D.I.Y. aplomb; it's as if he feels he's inventing literature for the first time.\" --Mark Leyner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Flores's fiction possesses the aspect of a dream.\" --David L. 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One of Three Rivers' last literate citizens, Neftalí hides and reads the books of the mysterious renegade author Jazzmin Monelle Rivas, whose last novel, \u003ci\u003eBrother Brontë\u003c\/i\u003e, is finally in Neftalí's possession. But after a series of increasingly violent atrocities committed by Crick's forces, Neftalí and Proserpina, with the help of a wounded Bengal tigress, three scheming triplets, and an underground network of rebel tías, rise up to reclaim their city--and in the process, unlock Rivas's connection to Three Rivers itself.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e An adventure that only the acclaimed Fernando A. Flores could dream up, \u003ci\u003eBrother Brontë\u003c\/i\u003e is a mordant, gonzo romp through a ruined world that, in its dysfunction, tyranny, and disparity, feels uncannily like our own. 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