Santa Fe Noir Edited by Ariel Gore
Santa Fe Noir Edited by Ariel Gore
The stories in this collection reflect a fundamental truth about this city: history depends on who's telling it. Too often, the story of Santa Fe is told only by the conquerors and PR firms in the tourism industry. In Santa Fe Noir, you will hear the voices of the others: locals and Native people, unemployed veterans and queer transplants, the homeless, and the paroled-to-here. When I asked contributors you'll read in these pages if they had a Santa Fe story to tell, they invariably shrugged and said, "Oh, I've got a story all right. But it might not fit the image of Santa Fe you're looking for."
I said, "Try me." They came back with stories that never made the glossy tour brochures: the working class and the underground, the decolonized and the ever-haunted, the Santa Fe only we know.... Conquered and unconquered, colonized and commodified. Santa Fe understands -- from historical genocide to the murders of family members -- the intimacy of violence.
Ariel Gore, from the Introduction.
Akashic Books, Softcover, 2020
THIS IS A BRAND NEW BOOK.