Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Border crossing may be literal, figurative, imaginary, symbolic or psychological, or, as in the Mexican novelist Juan Tovar's CREATURES OF A DAY, all of these at once. This richly conceived prose fiction (a novel in the freshest sense) enchants and seduces the reader with a beguiling tableau of tales told in a language contemporary yet resonant of Calderón de la Barca, Chaucer and Shakespeare. "Tovar's ravers come to life, purge themselves, then vanish into a terminal moraine of tablecloths on fire, skulls of sugar, abandoned hospitals, grids of asphalt, and derelict urinals. Tovar is Borges without the scholarly apparatus, and a major contribution to Mexican delirium"--Paul West