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The idea for the curse fit perfectly into my passion for magical realism, but it actually stems from a family legend that indeed the men in my family… - Rudy Ruiz
" "The idea for the curse fit perfectly into my passion for magical realism, but it actually stems from a family legend that indeed the men in my family were cursed. Fortunately, for me, I believe it to be a very colorful – if symbolic – fiction, a more palatable way of explaining our human flaws and failures, our past inability to overcome the burdens of our own histories, social barriers, and bad habits.
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About Rudy Ruiz
Rudy Ruiz is an American author and social entrepreneur. He has written a collection of short stories, Seven for the Revolution, as well as two novels, The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez and Valley of Shadows. The latter, published in 2022, received the Texas Institute of Letters Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Book of Fiction.
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In a way, diving into that Western and horror aspect of it, it felt like it freed me. It freed me up to have more fun with it in a way, maybe because I wasn't taking myself or my writing as seriously and I was just having fun within those genres. I found it liberating. It's weird to say, because you're putting some constraints around yourself. But then within those constraints, you just opened up this universe within which I could have a lot of fun.
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