Fiction. Latino/a Studies. Translated by Gustavo V. Segade. POINTS OF DEPARTURE brings together seventeen Mexican authors born in the 1950s and 1960s, most of whom have never before been published in English. Magical realism and exoticism are nowhere to be found in this collection of sophisticated, very contemporary stories. Rather, the surreal contradictions and juxtapostions of daily life in Mexico are a permeating presence. A sharp sense of irony, incongruity, and hilarity pervades many of the scenarios offered here, along with an acid-tongued fatalism. Includes stories by Juvenal Acosta, Rosina Conde, Monica Lavin, Enrique Serna, Francisco Hinojosa, and many others.