Scores

Scores

<div><div><span>From the Publisher<br>​​​​​​​"South Texas is becoming the go-to place for a certain kind of fiction. Plainspoken, effortlessly poetic, and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny (see the opener, "Dick Tea"), Moreira's very first short story collection evokes a sense of place and emotion reminiscent of a Scott Mclanahan or a Brian Allen Carr (who happened to edit this one). Like I said, there's something about the South. I'm beginning to wonder if the heat just strips away all the fat of the prose, leaving only bone."<br><b></b><br>​​Advance Praise<br>"Brash, hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking, Robert Paul Moreira's stories are exquisite mini-portraits of lives filled with sex, baseball, movies and small victories. A pure delight." <br>​​--Daniel A. Olivas, author of <i>The Book of Want</i> and T<i>hings We Do Not Talk About: Exploring Latino/a Literature Through Essays and Interviews​​</i><br><b></b><br>"Robert Paul Moreira must be down there on the Rio Grande panning hearts and souls out of that dirty water. He's like a blue-collar Borges, and <i>Scores </i>is a labyrinth of a thing: all twisted with violence and empathy and hallelujahs. I suggest you get all lost in it." <br>​--Scott McClanahan, author of <i>Crapalachia</i> and <i>The Sarah Book</i> </span></div> </div>