A Perfect Scar and Other Stories

<p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>whimsical sly and slightly crazy collection of short stories from award-winning novelist poet and songwriter Trebor Healey covers much ground. The range is jaw-dropping: from a Vietnamese gangster with a voracious libido and a small boy troubled by his gay dog to an 1870s hermaphrodite cowboy named Captain Jinx ... and then there's the lad who becomes a sex-inspiring satyr an American Spanish student in Guanajuato seduced by a pair of twins during the Cervantino celebrations and a housesitting gig that goes terribly awry.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>There is humor and insight delivered in lyrical vibratory phrases and darker more haunting tales as well often with a thread of Catholic as well as Mexican culture involving young men facing untimely death reflections on aging family duty sacrifice and sibling rivalry - and the fateful and courageous choices we are forced to make in the name of love.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Originally published in 2007 this new edition includes a foreword by Peter Dub�� (</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Headless Man</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>).</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p><span>������</span>Trebor Healey's writing is suffused with the purest emotion the bravest funniest tone and the perfect balance of poetics daring and charm. - Joy Nicholson <em>The Tribes of Palos Verdes</em></p><p><br></p><p>Shows us men and women whose lives have been or are about to be forever altered by love ... sharp empathic and unforgettable. - Bernard Cooper <em>The Bill from My Father</em></p><p><br></p><p>The eleven selections take the reader on far journeys in space and time from Ireland the forests of Alaska and the cobblestone streets of Guanajuato to the streets and saloons of California's post Gold Rush prosperity and San Francisco in the age of AIDS ... pulls the reader in immediately and offers a journey to the distant coasts of emotion. - Robert Ridinger <em>Speaking for Our Lives</em></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Trebor Healey is all soul ... The way he stacks sentences vibrates on the page. There's an impressive experimental range in this short story collection. Trebor Healey uses multiple narrators to bring voice to a variety of human experiences. - Kirk Read <em>How I Learned to Snap</em></p><p><br></p>