Antonio Ruiz-Camacho

Antonio Ruiz-Camacho - 3.22.2016 A good boy from New Delhi, Karan Mahajan came to America in 2001 to attend college at Stanford University. Friends and family expected him to follow a familiar path after graduation. Instead, under the crisp, glaring…

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Terrorism seemed absurd to me. There was a widespread belief in liberal circles that terrorism was caused by poverty, when in fact most well-known terrorists in modern times have come from middle-class families, have degrees — often multiple degrees — and have lived between cultures. It’s the torn people, who try to make meaning out of their alienation — often in destructive and self-destructive ways — that interest me.

When the patriarch of a large, wealthy clan in Mexico City is kidnapped, it leads the family to an unintentional diaspora. A clever and current book about a complicated woman and her romantic relationships. Frances, an aloof and intelligent…

When the patriarch of a large, wealthy clan in Mexico City is kidnapped, it leads the family to an unintentional diaspora. Mexican-born, Texas-based journalist Ruiz-Camacho shows a wealth of talent in this fiction debut, a collection of…

A nimble debut that demonstrates not a singular narrative voice but a realistic chorus of them. When the patriarch of a large, wealthy clan in Mexico City is kidnapped, it leads the family to an unintentional diaspora. Mexican-born, Texas-based…

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A nimble debut that demonstrates not a singular narrative voice but a realistic chorus of them. When the patriarch of a large, wealthy clan in Mexico City is kidnapped, it leads the family to an unintentional diaspora. Mexican-born, Texas-based…

The characters that inhabit the moving and sad and ultimately funny and hopeful 13 stories included in Stay Up With Me are usually stricken with grief and loss.