One Day I'll Tell You the Things I've Seen

"Vaquera-Vásquez's stories move their characters through time, space, countries, childhood, music, languages, and relationships only to find themselves where they began--changed, perhaps--but always still in motion."
--Waxwing

"[A] fine collection of stories. . . . Vaquera-Vásquez creates a world where we are all citizens, but none can completely escape his origins."
--Shelf Awareness

"These introspective stories are haunting . . . as easy to absorb and inhabit as our own."
--Booklist

"With One Day I'll Tell You the Things I've Seen, Vaquera-Vásquez contributes a vital and lyrical voice to the Chicano literary canon as well as to the canon of twenty-first-century American literature."
--Concho River Review

"In this lovely yet visceral book, the triumphs and tragedies of Vaquera-Vásquez's characters consistently resonate with readers."
--Publishers Weekly

"Concise, emotionally acute stories for those interested in reading beyond their borders."
--Library Journal

"These stories are so aching and wise, full of pasts and futures and people we should have known better, full of love."--Junot Díaz, author of This Is How You Lose Her

"A beautiful book. It's like sitting around a table with your best friend over coffee, going through a box of photos, stopping at some images and recalling moments in life that made us who we are."--Daniel Chacón, author of Hotel Juárez: Stories, Rooms and Loops

"In One Day I'll Tell You the Things I've Seen, the border is as much a psychic and cosmic space as it is a place of social experience. Language functions on multiple levels--Spanish, English, street slang, and even text messaging--to give the collection and its characters depth far beyond words on the page."--Melina Vizcaíno-Alemán, assistant professor of English at the University of New Mexico