My Chicano Heart

“Olivas has done it again. In this collection of stories from University of Nevada Press, Olivas has captured the essence of the Southwestern, supernatural story. Each story leads the reader down a darkening path, yet we go completely of our own volition just to see what he will show us. Nothing is free, yet like his hapless characters, we always agree to the bargain.”
—Kathleen Alcalá, author of Treasures in Heaven: A Novel

“These stories are about love, heartbreak, magic, death and other oddities of our Chicano lives, as only Olivas’s imagination can tell them. I am tempted to say this is one of the most innovative and whimsical collections I have read in years, but then I remember the last one that I read that was just as good was also a collection of stories by Olivas. He is without a doubt one of the master storytellers of our time. A Chicano man who literally gives his heart away to his partner, an arrogant weatherman with Chicano-sized problems, a mystical encounter with Frida Kahlo in Mexico City, these fictions are fun, fast, and frankly fantastic.”
—Daniel Chacón, author of The Cholo Tree

“Daniel A. Olivas has written fascinating fantastical scenarios in My Chicano Heart, but always with very recognizable human settings and issues. This collection is a portrait of Latinx/Chicana/o life as it is lived today, and there is true voz here that is jammed with feeling and passion. It’s as if all of Olivas’s character’s souls are embattled.” 
—Yxta Maya Murray, author of The World Doesn’t Work That Way, but It Could