Happy pub day to Fernando A. Flores’s beguiling, psychedelic, hilarious, profound, and daringly original collection VALLEYESQUE! Fernando is the first author I ever signed up, as a freaked out 23 year old in 2018, and since I read the first draft of what became his acclaimed debut novel TEARS OF THE TRUFFLEPIG I knew I had encountered a writer, and human, of uncommon talent, warmth, and verve. Nando I am so proud of you! And if you want a taste, I included an excerpt from one of my favorite stories, where a grieving Frederic Chopin loses himself in a hallucinatory fog in Mexico City. Cover obviously by my wife @na_son. 🏜🌴🇲🇽🐩🐷