Cinco Puntos Press: 90 books
Las Soldaderas
Women of the Mexican Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The photographs of Las Soldaderas and Elena Poniatowska’s remarkable commentary rescue the women of the Mexican Revolution from the dust and oblivion of history. These are the Adelitas and Valentinas celebrated in famous corridos mexicanos, but whose destiny was much more profound and tragic than...
Out of Their Minds
The Incredible and (Sometimes) Sad Story of Ramon and Cornelio
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
"Hey, what's up, come a little closer, I have something to tell you," God said to Cornelio. The deal was simple: God would be the silent partner in the norteño band that Cornelio had started with his best friend Ramon. Cornelio would sing and play the bajo sexto, Ramon the accordion, and...
That Mad Game
Growing Up in a Warzone: An Anthology of Essays from Around the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
What's it like to grow up during war? To be a victim of violence or exiled from your homeland, culture, family, and even your own memories?
When America's talking heads talk about war, children and teenagers are often the forgotten part of the story. Yet who can forget images of the Vietnam...
Juan Verdades
The Man Who Couldn't Tell a Lie / El hombre que no sabía mentir
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
“Hayes's flowing plot, enlivened by several wry twists, is decidedly satisfying. Fiedler's spare, earth-toned paintings convey the particulars of the setting from traditional garb to the sprawling landscapes as well as the timelessness of folklore.”—Publishers Weekly
Don Ignacio is a...
Beauty is a Verb
The New Poetry of Disability
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Chosen by the American Library Association as a 2012 Notable Book in Poetry.
Beauty is a Verb is a ground-breaking anthology of disability poetry, essays on disability, and writings on the poetics of both. Crip Poetry. Disability Poetry. Poems with Disabilities. This is where poetry and disability...
Dealing Death and Drugs
The Big Business of Dope in the U.S. and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
The War on Drugs doesn’t work. This became obvious to El Paso City Representatives Susie Byrd and Beto O’Rourke when they started to ask questions about why El Paso’s sister city Ciudad Juárez has become the deadliest city in the world-8,000-plus deaths since January 1, 2008. Byrd and O’Rourke...
by Paul Spike
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
A son tries to understand the violent murder of his father--civil-rights leader Rev. Robert Spike--in 1966.
by Harvey Araton
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Harvey Araton writes, with keen insight, of a time when power was ebbing fast from both newspapers and their unions. It’s an especially bittersweet tale he tells of the people who had grown up in newspapers and unions, as they struggle to adapt to this evolving new order. And, of course, what makes...
by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Winner of the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction!
Benjamin Alire Sáenz's stories reveal how all borders--real, imagined, sexual, human, the line between dark and light, addict and straight--entangle those who live on either side. Take, for instance, the Kentucky Club on Avenida Juárez two...
by Brett Hartman
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Sixteen year-old Alex Riley’s top priorities in life are to find his long-absent father and a girl with a decent set of breasts. But his mother has a knack for sabotaging his plans. To advance her political career, she takes in an elderly black man named Lester Bray. Lester arrives with a vintage...
by George Wier, Milton T. Burton
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
"With an almost encyclopedic knowledge of the historic underbelly of Galveston and a ringing feel for dialogue, Long Fall From Heaven carries us along on a sordid yet seamless narrative of murderous mayhem." -Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire Mysteries
Cueball Boland and...
The Right Way to be Crippled and Naked
The Fiction of Disability: An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
"I remember I believed all my problems would be solved, if only I were beautiful. Then I was beautiful."—Jonathan Mack, from his story "The Right Way to be Crippled and Naked."
Welcome to the worlds of the disabled. The physically disabled. The mentally disabled. The emotionally...
by Lisa Sandlin
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
"The do-right" is old Southern talk for prison. Delpha Wade doesn't want to go back there. Fourteen years is enough.
by Désirée Zamorano
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Southern California is ground zero for upwardly mobile middle-class Latinas. Matriarchs like Mercy Amado-despite her drunken, philandering (now ex-) husband-could raise three daughters and become a teacher. Now she watches helplessly as her daughters drift apart as adults. The Latino bonds of familia...