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Nothing's Ever the Same

Nothing's Ever the Same - Paperback

by Cyn Vargas
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Availability:In StockContributor:Cyn VargasSeries:New Chicago Classics #9Publish date:2024-05-14Pages:168
Language:EnglishPublisher:Tortoise BooksISBN-13:9781948954877ISBN-10:1948954877UPC:9781948954877Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, City Life, Hispanic & LatinoSize:7.48 x 4.72 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.3704Product ID:SCAGSSXD8K
Itzel's 13th birthday party starts in just about the unluckiest way possible-with her dad having a heart attack. In those frantic moments, the pi?ntilde;ata and the frosted sheetcake and the Styrofoam cups of orange soda are forgotten; the day's highlights end up being CPR, an ambulance ride, and angioplasty. But when her father gets home from the hospital, his problems are far from over--and Itzel's are just getting started.

Nothing's Ever the Same chronicles a young girl's coming of age in Chicago--growing up as her family grows apart. In masterful fashion, Cyn Vargas gives us a touching and memorable and universal story about a marriage on the brink and a teenager looking for love. It's a short book that packs a wallop; it's also a beautiful meditation on dysfunction and forgiveness, and all the times in life to which we can never return.


The New Chicago Classics are a disparate set of titles united around a common theme: showcasing the city's up-and-coming literary talents as they produce enduring works. These excellent titles are destined to stand in the first rank of literature about the second city.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Tortoise BooksISBN-13:9781948954877ISBN-10:1948954877UPC:9781948954877Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, City Life, Hispanic & LatinoSize:7.48 x 4.72 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.3704Product ID:SCAGSSXD8K
Cyn Vargas's short story collection, On The Way, received positive reviews from Shelf Awareness, Library Journal, Heavy Feather Review, and Necessary Fiction, among others. Book accolades include: Book Scrolling's Best Short Story Collections of All Time, Newcity Lit's Top 5 Fiction Books by Chicago Authors, Chicago Book Review's Favorite Books of
2015, Bustle's 11 Short Story Collections Your Book Club Will Love, and the Chicago Writers Association's 2015 Book of the Year Honorable Mention.

Cyn's prose and essays have been widely published and she received a Top 25 Finalist and Honorable Mention in two of Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers Contests, is the recipient of the Guild Literary Complex Prose Award in Fiction, Core Faculty at StoryStudio Chicago, on the Board of Directors for Hypertext Studio, and twice selected as artist-in-residence at the Ragdale Foundation. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago.



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