{"product_id":"beyond-all-reasonable-doubt-jesus-is-alive-isbn-9781662601828","title":"Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive!","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Powerful short fiction that lingers.\"—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lozada-Oliva shines in this scintillating collection . . . Readers will be enthralled.\"—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Melissa Lozada-Oliva writes with a perfect blend of intoxicating magic and unflinching humor, illuminating the visceral tensions of yearning and darkness that define our most human moments. A beautiful, sharp-tongued collection that feels like an instant classic with an edge all its own.\"—Chelsea Bieker, author of \u003ci\u003eMadwoman\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGodshot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eDreaming of You\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCandelaria \u003c\/i\u003ecomes an ethereal and revelatory short story collection about faith, delusion, and the demons that can't get enough of us.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA beheaded body interrupts a quinceañera. An obsession with her father’s bizarre video game shifts a lonely girl’s reality. A sentient tail sprouts from a hospital worker’s backside, throwing her romantic life into peril. And in the novella “Community Hole,” a recently cancelled musician flees New York and finds herself in a haunted punk house in Boston.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection, at once playful, grisly, and tender, presents a tapestry of women ailing for something to believe in – even if it hurts them. Using body horror, fabulism, and humor, Melissa Lozada-Oliva mines the pain and uncanniness of the modern world. Reveling in the fine line between disgust and desire, \u003ci\u003eBeyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus is Alive!\u003c\/i\u003e is for the sinner in us all.\"Melissa Lozada-Oliva is one of the Latina writers to watch. [These stories] are heartbreaking and also funny and a little weird . . . I just adore her.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Xochitl Gonzalez, \u003ci\u003eThe TODAY Show\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Deeply poetic, delightfully weird.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Emma Specter, \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lozada-Oliva’s short stories are luminescent, uncanny, and infused with earnestness and humor.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Ariél M. Martinez, \u003ci\u003eBOMB Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dazzling . . . The author’s rich, economical worldbuilding and character development give this slim volume more punch than most collections of similar size­.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lozada-Oliva shines in this scintillating collection of stories about young women navigating desperate situations . . . [She] effectively uses body horror and the uncanny to spotlight the monstrous forms her characters’ insecurities can take. Readers will be enthralled.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Beyond All Reasonable, Doubt Jesus Is Alive! is unsettling, darkly funny, and strangely hopeful. Lozada‑Oliva crafts stories that linger like whispered confessions, leaving you with the sense that survival and belief are never simple, but they are always profoundly human.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Corrine Watson, \u003ci\u003eWest Trade Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lozada-Oliva’s cleverness shines through a collection that will unsettle you in the best way.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Christina Orlando, \u003ci\u003eReactor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Melissa Lozada-Oliva is a wonderful, wonderful writer . . . What is most striking to me about Lozada-Oliva’s work is its tenderness in spite of the strangeness: she always loves the ghosts. No matter how surreal her writing gets, she never loses the thread of compassion.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—James Folta, \u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Magic, humor, and faith ground Lozada-Oliva’s story collection, which features beheaded bodies, bizarre video games, sentient tails, and haunted punk houses.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Eva M. Baron, \u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The stories in \u003ci\u003eBeyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus is Alive!\u003c\/i\u003e are like ghost stories that ghosts would tell about the living to scare each other. Melissa Lozada-Oliva must secretly have two hearts or something! A single plane of reality is never big enough for her; in this emotionally iridescent collection, she pulls off charm and gloom with equal aplomb.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eTony Tulathimutte, author of \u003ci\u003eRejection \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Melissa Lozada-Oliva writes with a perfect blend of intoxicating magic and unflinching humor, illuminating the visceral tensions of yearning and darkness that define our most human moments. A beautiful, sharp-tongued collection that feels like an instant classic with an edge all its own.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eChelsea Bieker, author of \u003ci\u003eMadwoman\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGodshot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Eerie, hilarious, tender and surreal, Melissa Lozada-Oliva makes her mark as a shimmering patron saint of the weird girl lit world.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eGennaRose Nethercott, author of \u003ci\u003eFifty Beasts to Break Your Heart\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThistlefoot\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Hilarious and deliriously odd, \u003ci\u003eBeyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus is Alive! \u003c\/i\u003edives giddily into the joys and troubles of being a flawed person. I was mesmerized by each of Lozada-Oliva’s delicious jumps of imagination, landing in a place more marvelous and heart-achingly human than I would ever expect.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eGerardo Sámano Córdova, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMonstrilio\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBeyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive!\u003c\/i\u003e is beautiful, moving, weird, and complex in all the best ways. With precision and the command of language of an accomplished poet, Lozada-Oliva puts into words feelings and truths I didn’t know how to name, but immediately recognized. A wild ride of a single imagination.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eAnanda Lima, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eCraft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In Melissa Lozada-Oliva’s hands, girlhood is the eerie, seething, unsurvivable thing that women all know it to be. Lozada-Oliva’s protagonists cry, scheme, joke, lie, mourn, humiliate themselves, and scream for attention in settings both familiar and fantastical. It’s a mark of the author’s brilliance that as they do all this, they also charm us, every step of the way.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eRax King, author of \u003ci\u003eTacky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eMelissa Lozada-Oliva is a poet, novelist and screenwriter. A child of Guatemalan and Colombian immigrants, she is the author of \u003ci\u003epeluda\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDreaming of You\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCandelaria\u003c\/i\u003e. Melissa's work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBBC Mundo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAudible\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Yale Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e, and more. She lives and teaches in New York City. 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