Mauricio Montiel Figueiras

Una moderna f bula sobre el v nculo entre nuestro ser y nuestro comer. Su nombre es Andr s, pero en la escuela todos lo conocen como "el Se or Papas" porque se la pasa comiendo frituras, golosinas y dem s comida chatarra. Esto le ha causado sobrepeso y provoca las burlas de sus compa eros. Solamente sus amigos Alex y Ana lo tratan bien y le recomiendan alimentarse de manera sana. Pero no es sino hasta que don Ari, el due o de la tienda de la esquina, sufre un ataque al coraz n que resulta fatal, cuando Andr s comprende el significado de la frase "Somos lo que comemos". ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A modern fable about the connection between our being and our eating. His name is Andr s, but at school, everyone knows him as "Mr. Chips" because he spends his time eating chips, candy, and other junk food. This has led to weight gain and makes him the target of his classmates' teasing. Only his friends Alex and Ana treat him well and encourage him to eat healthily. But it is not until Don Ari, the owner of the corner store, suffers a fatal heart attack that Andr s truly understands the meaning of the phrase "We are what we eat."

Distributed by University Press of Florida on behalf of Panhandler Books, an imprint of the Department of English and World Languages at the University of West Florida In Proper Imposters, four contemporary authors explore the vices and virtues of deception and how it manifests in ways personal, psychological, propulsive, and profound. An accountant at a pencil manufacturing company investigates a series of ominous events behind the facade of the mysterious company where he works; from their deathbeds, fictionalized versions of Nikolai Gogol and Edgar Allen Poe look back on their lives and remember an epic, transformational, and ahistorical road trip they took together as young men; a young woman is startled into action trying to execute "a simple plan" of escape involving cash, a sleep-over by her college roommate and the bold seduction of a boy she has decided to lose her virginity to; and, a reclusive night-shift worker tries a daring weight-loss experiment only to find himself pursued by a stalker no one else can see. Montiel Figueiras, Parker, Bhuvaneswar, and Ockert are devotees and virtuosos of the form, and each novella is lyrically rich in its prose and swift in its plotting. Together, the novellas startle with the consequences of seeing and being seen.