Book Talk: Anthology by Roberto Perezdiaz
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Another person with local history has become a published author. Roberto Perezdiaz has produced an anthology of his short stories, “Subsonic Flight to Tequila Therapy and Other Tales from Aztlan” (2022, 232 pages in paperback format). Perezdiaz was a court interpreter in Madera (the subject of the fourth short story) and was married to the late Gloria Osuna, the artist who created the Aztec-inspired Coyolxauhqui Madre Cosmica exhibit, which Rochelle Noblett brought to our gallery from an art...

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