Indiana Review, July 1st, 2006
Daniel Chacón. Chicano Chicanery. Houston, Texas: Arte Público Press, 2000. $11.95 paper (ISBN 1-55885-280-8), 152 pages.
The first lesson you should learn from Daniel Chacón's short story collection, Chicano Chicanery, is simple: the author is seriously screwing with you.
This collection of thirteen stories exhibits the work of a clever storyteller who is not afraid to make his readers squirm, laugh, and most importantly think about our notions of Chicano identity and how fragile they really are. In the last story of the collection, "Epilogue: Story #7 in D Minor," which revels in meta-f...
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