Faith Healer of Olive Avenue

Manuel Munoz is celebrated as one of the foremost literary chroniclers of California's Central Valley. Northwestern University Press published his debut story collection, Zigzagger, in 2 3, and are delighted to announce that reprints of his second story collection and his novel will be joining the acclaimed TriQuarterly imprint. Each reissue includes a foreword that celebrates the enduring, empathic power of Muñoz's fiction.Muñoz has been recognized with a Whiting Award, three O. Henry Awards, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, two selections in Best American Short Stories and, most recently, a 2023 MacArthur Fellowship. His frequently anthologized work has appeared in The New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, Electric Literature, ZYZZYVA, and Freeman's. A native of Dinuba, California, he lives in Tucson.

• Lindo y Querido Bring Brang Brung The Heart Finds Its Own Conclusion When You Come into Your Kingdom Tell Him About Brother John Ida y Vuelta Señ or X The Comeuppance of Lupe Rivera The Good Brother The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue

"Moving and tender . . . Muñoz writes elegantly and sympathetically a softly glowing, melancholy beauty that makes [his stories] universal." - The New York Times Book Review "Ten superbly grounded stories . . . Fine storytelling that achieves universality while remaining rooted in a particular time and place." - Kirkus (starred review)