“A Flock for the Sandhill Crane”

Title“A Flock for the Sandhill Crane”
Year for Search2021
AuthorsSanchez, Roman
Secondary AuthorsHernandez, Alex, Goodwin, Matthew David, and García, Sarah Rafael
Secondary TitleSpeculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology
Pagination122-138
Date Published2021
PublisherMad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press
Place PublishedColumbus
ISBN Number978-0-8142-5798-2
KeywordsLatinx author, Male author, US author
Annotation

The story is divided between San Antonio in 1931 and in 2231. The former reflects the extreme poverty of a Mexican American family. In the latter, the world has experienced a nuclear war and, under the United Nations, has established a world-wide cooperative economy. But a space program has been developed through cooperation between remaining tech companies and the UN to exploit the resources of space that is actually used to wealthy whites to the Moon and then further. Elements of Magical Realism.

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Author Note

The Latinx author is a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Full Text

2021 Sanchez, Roman. “A Flock for the Sandhill Crane.” Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology. Ed. Alex Hernandez; Matthew David Goodwin; and Sarah Rafael García (Columbus: Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press, 2021), 122-38. PSt

The story is divided between San Antonio in 1931 and in 2231. The former reflects the extreme poverty of a Mexican American family. In the latter, the world has experienced a nuclear war and, under the United Nations, has established a world-wide cooperative economy. But a space program has been developed through cooperation between remaining tech companies and the UN to exploit the resources of space that is actually used to wealthy whites to the Moon and then further. Elements of Magical Realism. The Latinx author is a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.