Jared Lemus
Guatemalan Rhapsody
(Literary fiction/short stories, March, Ecco Press)
“Guatemalan Rhapsody tells the stories of saints and sinners, holy men and vagabonds, and holds the country of Guatemala up to the light so that it may shine to the point of synesthesia—a place so real you can taste and hear the music.”
WRITES FROM: Pittsburgh and N.C. PRE-RHAPSODY: Leading up to this, I was writing stories that appeared in Joyland, Story, Cleaver, Kweli, The Porter House Review, The Pinch, and other literary journals, with the “biggest” publication being a nonfiction piece in The Kenyon Review Online. TIME FRAME: It took me five years to write this book. I am a very slow writer and I edit as I go; I write one sentence, then I rewrite it, then…
