Fernando A. Flores Books in Order

Ten stories follow the strange energies of South Texas’s punk music scene. Moving through the Rio Grande Valley with surreal humor, the collection explores youthful creativity, local subcultures, and the contradictions of making art far from established centers.

In an altered South Texas, resurrected animal species become luxury contraband. An invitation to an underground dinner draws cautious Esteban Bellacosa into criminal networks and legends of a vanished Indigenous people and their mysterious, powerful Trufflepig.

These stories transform the Texas-Mexico borderlands through surreal encounters, satire, and grief. Possums rewrite a town’s history, Chopin searches for a confiscated piano, and ordinary lives shift into fantastical situations that expose the region’s conflicts and imagination.

In a future Texas town where reading is banned and mothers labor in a polluting cannery, friends Neftalí and Proserpina resist an authoritarian mayor. A forbidden novel, unlikely allies, and a rebel network help them challenge his rule.