James Cañón

Bookslut on “Tales from the Town of Widows”

Bookslut, a monthly web magazine for book-lovers, recently reviewed Tales from the Town of Widows.
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n late 1992, a band of guerrilla fighters came to Mariquita, a tiny village in the fold of a Colombian valley, asking for food, money, and soldiers. Getting nothing but scraps, coins, lorazepam and a single volunteer, they change tactics: “Comrades,” calls their leader, “in the name of the Colombian revolution, take what’s yours!” The guerrillas claim every Mariquitan man over the age of 12, massacring them for resisting or shuffling them out of town at gunpoint. The grieving women that are left behind write pointless appeals to a distant government, and watch as their town degrades to squalor. The husbandless Mariquita is the title town of James Cañón’s Tales from the Town of Widows & Chronicles from the Land of Men. His first novel, it mixes supernatural and allegorical elements into an account of a dying town.

The men that remain consist of four babies, one homosexual (out of Mariquita when the guerrillas came), a transgendered preteen, and a priest. When the men are gone, disorders and madness strike at random. The lonesome, love-hungry maidens of Mariquita whore themselves out to men from adjacent towns, trading tricks for trinkets, chocolates, and love poems. Their “magical whorehouse” is an elusive cluster of white tents that changes location every night buy diazepam to avoid detection, until the night it disappears.

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