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Tag Archives: Yxta Maya Murray

What It Takes to Get to Vegas

“In What It Takes to Get to Vegas the contrapuntal viewpoints–defiant and self-doubting, calculating and fuzzy-headed–are combined into a single stream of consciousness. Frenetic, bittersweet, and often hilarious, Rita’s voice is at once specifically American in its rhythms and syntax, and indisputably female. . . . Rita Zapata is who…

Locas

“Murray details these two girls’ grim histories with little sentimentality and much skill.” –The New York Times Book Review…