Winner of the Iowa Short Story Fiction Award Blake Sanz’s short story collection -The Boundaries of Their Dwelling takes us into the place where all of us are immigrants. He talks with us about his work.
“The title comes from a line in the Bible, from Act’s I believe, and the full line is “and he has made form one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth and has determined their pre-appointed times within the boundaries of their dwelling.” And it’s a line that ‘s sometimes .. used by those who oppose certain immigration policies… That line is used as a justification for stricter, tougher immigrant laws. I found that interesting,
And the book, it’s content is about, at least to some extent… people of Mexican descent who find themselves in the American South, particularly Louisiana, which is where I’m from. So half the book is about people of Mexican descent making a go of it in the south, but it’s also about people in the south having experiences of disconnectedness from home as well.”
” If there’s something that connects all the stories I would say it’s that, many of the characters, across all of the stories, are feeling somewhat uprooted in some way, and they’re trying to find a place for themselves.”
“The title comes from a line in the Bible, from Act’s I believe, and the full line is “and he has made form one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth and has determined their pre-appointed times within the boundaries of their dwelling.” And it’s a line that ‘s sometimes .. used by those who oppose certain immigration policies… That line is used as a justification for stricter, tougher immigrant laws. I found that interesting,
And the book, it’s content is about, at least to some extent… people of Mexican descent who find themselves in the American South, particularly Louisiana, which is where I’m from. So half the book is about people of Mexican descent making a go of it in the south, but it’s also about people in the south having experiences of disconnectedness from home as well.”
” If there’s something that connects all the stories I would say it’s that, many of the characters, across all of the stories, are feeling somewhat uprooted in some way, and they’re trying to find a place for themselves.”
There’s just no way around the fact that writing can be deeply personnel. You’re really exposing a lot of just how you see the world. And for someone to say ‘Ah the way you see the world, I’m just not interested in.’ That’s not an easy thing to hear.
Everybody has a story, It maybe happy, sad, uplifting, tragic, but everybody has a story, because we’re all on the journey of life.
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