(*NEW ARRIVAL*) (Chicano - Fine Press) Sandra Trujillo. Funeral Food

Illus. with color risographs. 15x11", loose signatures in cloth-backed gray boards portfolio, string ties. No. 83 of 100 copies printed on Intertype C-4 paper, on a Chandler & Price 1882 printing press. Guadalajara: Impronta Casa Editora, 2019.

The book presents stories about a youth, familial connection to food, and creative and thrifty-minded individuals.   The collection of stories is sketched from memory with an idea to reveal intimate connections between families and urban domestic experiences. 

"My goal for FUNERAL FOOD was two-fold: 1) to pay tribute to a diverse community of good cooks; and 2) to talk about thrifty economies (material culture) within California Chicano culture in the 1970’s. FUNERAL FOOD is both simple to read and on first read funny.  But the undercurrent of the book is about economy and a family skating on the edge of poverty.   The stories celebrate the cultural foods and people of my youth and illuminate overwhelming acts of generosity.  I tried to create sensations about food and negotiate the uncanny circumstance for abundance (funeral gifts)." - Sandra Trujillo

Near fine.