Molina Velarde, Juan Fernando

Overview "This manuscript, titled after the plural form of the Spanish word for wake, would be best read as a mounrful study on the death of childhood. The stories herein seek to inhabit the minds and emotional states of a Panamanian-American couple in the aftermath of the end of their relationship, complicated by the colliding of youthful passion, abandon, and naivety, with the harshness of consequence, guilt, trauma, and regret. It is not a moralistic tale. Rather, it explores the ways we grieve...