{"product_id":"my-heart-has-more-rooms-than-a-whorehouse-isbn-9780593655832","title":"My Heart Has More Rooms Than a Whorehouse","description":"\u003cb\u003eA series of linked stories following the members of a large Latinx family exploring the pressure points of familial obligations and the complexities of love.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eMalas\u003c\/i\u003e comes a short story collection that centers the challenges of family, with characters constantly trying to navigate a web of allegiances and seeking breathing space for themselves. A young boy from the barrio settles a wager his dead father made with a rich man. A sister tries to make sense of her brother’s career as a bull rider. A group of kids searches for the bogeyman haunting their grandmother’s house. A suburban wife aches to understand her volatile husband.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll these individual’s dreams, desires, and fears swirl together to form a portrait of a Latinx family—one that’s imperfect and difficult but truer to life than any one perspective could be.\u003cb\u003eMarcela Fuentes\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning fiction writer and essayist. Her work has appeared in the\u003ci\u003e Indiana Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTexas Highways\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, and other journals. Her debut novel, \u003ci\u003eMalas,\u003c\/i\u003e was a Good Morning America Book Club pick for June 2024, and was long-listed for the 2024 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her linked story collection, \u003ci\u003eMy Heart Has More Rooms Than a Whorehouse\u003c\/i\u003e is forthcoming from Viking. She lives in Fort Worth, Texas.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233417179365,"sku":"NP9780593655832","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/my-heart-has-more-rooms-than-a-whorehouse-isbn-9780593655832","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}