SEX AS A
POLITICAL CONDITION
by
Carlos Nicolas Flores
TITLE: Sex as a Political Condition
AUTHOR: Carlos Nicolás Flores
GENRE: Literary Fiction: Political Satire
# of pages: 408
Sex as a
Political Condition: A Border Novel is a raucous, hilarious journey through political dangers that come
in all shapes, cup sizes, and sexual identities, a trip into the wild,
sometimes outrageous world of the Texas-Mexico border and all geographical and
anatomical points south.
Honoré del Castillo runs the family curio
shop in the backwater border town of Escandón, Texas, and fears dying in front
of his TV like some six-pack José in his barrio. Encouraged by his friend
Trotsky, he becomes politically active—smuggling refugees, airlifting guns to
Mexican revolutionaries, negotiating with radical Chicana lesbians—but the
naked truths he faces are more often naked than true and constantly threaten to
unman him. When a convoy loaded with humanitarian aid bound for Nicaragua pulls
into Escandón, his journey to becoming a true revolutionary hero begins, first
on Escandón’s international bridge and then on the highways of Mexico. But not
until both the convoy and Honoré’s mortality and manhood are threatened in
Guatemala does he finally confront the complications of his love for his wife
and daughter, his political principles, the stench of human fear, and
ultimately what it means to be a principled man in a screwed-up world.
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A native of El Paso, Carlos Nicolas
Flores is a winner of the Chicano/Latino Literary Prize and author of a young
adult novel, Our House on Hueco (TTUP, 2006). As a director of the Teatro
Chicano de Laredo and a former director of the South Texas Writing Project, he
has long been engaged in the promotion of new writers and writing about the
Mexican American experience. He teaches English at Laredo Community College in
Laredo, Texas.
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