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Unsolicited Press Launches FUNCTIONAL FAMILIES by Taylor García

11/2/2021

 
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PORTLAND, OR; November 2, 2021--As your family is bright, so is it dark. Sure, the love and laughter of family lingers in  your heart, yet it’s the secrets, pranks, and punishments that haunt your soul.  The  mothers, fathers, daughters, and sons in Functional Families all seek only love to cure their familial ills, but they often go about it in strange ways. To come to terms with his father’s past and encroaching dementia, Reynold Vasquez takes his father out for one last fancy dinner in “Bird Dog,” while in “Bat Out of Hell,” Margaret abandons her mother at a Tijuana gas station hoping to move on with her life. In “My First War,” young cadet Gilbert Fernandez goes AWOL from a pretend battlefield to be with his pregnant girlfriend on the verge of an abortion, and in “Wheel of Fortune,” Hillary Clinton visits a homegirl fortune teller in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In the end, these disparate souls resolve  their desperate actions to return to their nuclei, the only places they can call home.

                Families. You can’t pick them, but you can keep them. Or not.



About Taylor García
Taylor García is the author of the novel Slip Soul, and several short stories and essays. He also writes the weekly column, “Father Time” at the Good Men Project, and holds an MFA from Pacific University Oregon. García is a multi-generational Neomexicano originally from Santa Fé, New Mexico now living in Southern California with his wife and children.

About Unsolicited Press
Unsolicited Press was founded in 2012 and is based in Portland, OR. The press strives to produce exceptional works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from award-winning authors. 

FUNCTIONAL FAMILIES is available on November 2, 2021 as a paperback (188 p.; 978-1-950730-87-2)  and e-book (all major retailers). The title is distributed to the trade by Ingram.


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