Growth in the craft of homes it is manifested in a bibliography that to each new work is delimiting an elegant style on a nuclear theme around the family. Of course, Homes' experiences, her childhood in adoption and the embers of a biological family that never was, laid the foundations for that plot focus around which the author is able to unravel a fascinating universe in the fit between the personal and the family institution, with its millions of variants.
And from there Homes is expanding its exuberant narrative towards the social, the second of the nuclei around the person. The contrast between the personal and the social patterns of the normal and the eccentric make Holmes one of the great controversial authors of our day.
On this occasion it is necessary to address a multitude of replicas of these two complementary areas in which human existence is hardened. And despite the tension of those who insist on making their characters pass through the narrow door that leads out of alienation, standardization and mediocrity, the twelve stories composed for the occasion awaken the hilarity of the absurd towards the clairvoyance that underlies After each encounter, after each attitude, after each person, in short, they find in the exponential forms of human interaction, that new space in which they do not know how to behave or to which they indulge passionately without further consideration.
Literature of extremes, stories of high voltage. Heir to John fante and even of Charles Bukowski in that effort to present the city of Los Angeles as the most fiery, vital and contradictory microcosm of literature.
It does not take very clever to discover on so many occasions the farce that plunges us between consumerism and good customs, but it also does not hurt that someone like Holmes fills the absurdity of good literature, one that addresses its characters out of range, free, exposed to the happiness of the moment or the abyss of estrangement.
In short, a book of stories that, in tune with the current short narrative For adults, it awakens the most satire criticism of the times we live in.
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