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Amarisa's Cooking Pot: Tales of Life in All Its Wonders
Amarisa's Cooking Pot: Tales of Life in All Its Wonders is a riveting collection whose worlds collide and connect between the fantastic and the ordinary. Startling in their breadth and depth, these stories range from the quietly desperate to the gloriously fantastical, representing Mexican American culture among the characters who are guided by gifts of enchantment or confronted with illusory events shaped by deeply human and enlightening emotions. Each story is dedicated to capturing something ineffable, an emotional truth, a moment of beauty or realization, a moment of calm, or a spark of fury. What does it mean to be alive in a capricious world? Désirée Zamorano allows readers to explore this question beautifully, and memorably, long after the last page is turned.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of Nevada Press
- Publish Date: Jun 3rd, 2026
- Pages: 208
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.50in - 1.00lb
- EAN: 9781647792411
- Categories: • Hispanic & Latino - General• Magical Realism• Short Stories (single author)
About the Author
Los Angeles native Désirée Zamorano is the author of the groundbreaking historical novel, Dispossessed, as well as the highly acclaimed literary novel, The Amado Women. An award-winning and Pushcart prize-nominated short story writer, Zamorano's work explores where cultures collide and connect. A selection of her work can be found in Alta, The Kenyon Review Online, and Akashic's South Central Noir. She teaches linguistic and cultural diversity at California State University Long Beach and is a senior fiction editor at Silk Road Review.
Praise for this book
"How deft, vibrant, and heartfelt these stories are. I love the way they slip, subtly, from quiet domesticity to magic, then back again; I love even more how often the conduit for those shifts is a perfectly imagined mundane detail, such as an inherited cooking pot or a mother's shed strands of hair. And when these stories offer glimpses of wonder, they do so in order to give Zamorano's characters justice that the world denies them."
--Holly Goddard Jones, author of Antipodes: Stories and Girl Trouble: Stories "Désirée Zamorano's delightful debut story collection is an enchanting world of varied, fascinating, mostly Latine characters whose interiority she explores masterfully. With eloquence and care, Zamorano renders a refreshing range of Latinas of all classes--daughters, sisters, mothers, grandmothers, and wives--whose disparate experiences include a college professor with a PhD, a dental hygienist, a business woman at the top of her game, a student, and even God Herself. This gorgeous, entertaining collection of characters and stories is a triumph."
--Toni Ann Johnson, author of the Flannery O'Connor Award-winning linked story collection, Light Skin Gone to Waste, and But Where's Home "Zamorano offers a significant contribution to Latinx short story collections."
--Norma Cantú, Norine R. and T. Frank Murchison Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Trinity University, author of Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera
--Holly Goddard Jones, author of Antipodes: Stories and Girl Trouble: Stories "Désirée Zamorano's delightful debut story collection is an enchanting world of varied, fascinating, mostly Latine characters whose interiority she explores masterfully. With eloquence and care, Zamorano renders a refreshing range of Latinas of all classes--daughters, sisters, mothers, grandmothers, and wives--whose disparate experiences include a college professor with a PhD, a dental hygienist, a business woman at the top of her game, a student, and even God Herself. This gorgeous, entertaining collection of characters and stories is a triumph."
--Toni Ann Johnson, author of the Flannery O'Connor Award-winning linked story collection, Light Skin Gone to Waste, and But Where's Home "Zamorano offers a significant contribution to Latinx short story collections."
--Norma Cantú, Norine R. and T. Frank Murchison Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Trinity University, author of Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera