Catch a Falling Star
With this collection of stories, award-winning author Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo departs from the "tale" mode of her earlier work and returns to the realistic short story. But the simple narrative style and the nostalgic tone of these stories about young Patriciang Payatot are reminiscent of the the tales as well as of her travel essays, a genre in which she pioneered, and which some critics regard as her best work.