Nothing's Ever the Same

Cyn Vargas

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English

Tortoise Books
21 August 2024

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Hispanic & Latino studies

Itzel's 13th birthday party starts in just about the unluckiest way possible-with her dad having a heart attack. In those frantic moments, the piata and the frosted sheetcake and the Styrofoam cups of orange soda are forgotten; the day's highlights end up being CPR, an ambulance ride, and angioplasty. But when her father gets home from the hospital, his problems are far from over-and Itzel's are just getting started.

Nothing's Ever the Same chronicles a young girl's coming of age in Chicago-growing up as her family grows apart. In masterful fashion, Cyn Vargas gives us a touching and memorable and universal story about a marriage on the brink and a teenager looking for love. It's a short book that packs a wallop; it's also a beautiful meditation on dysfunction and forgiveness, and all the times in life to which we can never return.

The New Chicago Classics are a disparate set of titles united around a common theme: showcasing the city's up-and-coming literary talents as they produce enduring works. These excellent titles are destined to stand in the first rank of literature about the second city.

By: Cyn Vargas
Imprint: Tortoise Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 189mm, Width: 119mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 167g
ISBN: 9781948954877
ISBN 10: 1948954877
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 21 August 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Cyn Vargas's short story collection, On The Way, received positive reviews from Shelf Awareness, Library Journal, Heavy Feather Review, and Necessary Fiction, among others. Book accolades include: Book Scrolling's Best Short Story Collections of All Time, Newcity Lit's Top 5 Fiction Books by Chicago Authors, Chicago Book Review's Favorite Books of2015, Bustle's 11 Short Story Collections Your Book Club Will Love, and the Chicago Writers Association's 2015 Book of the Year Honorable Mention. Cyn's prose and essays have been widely published and she received a Top 25 Finalist and Honorable Mention in two of Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers Contests, is the recipient of the Guild Literary Complex Prose Award in Fiction, Core Faculty at StoryStudio Chicago, on the Board of Directors for Hypertext Studio, and twice selected as artist-in-residence at the Ragdale Foundation. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago.

Reviews for Nothing's Ever the Same

“Young and bright Itzel immediately endears herself to readers in this touching coming-of-age story. In the face of her father’s betrayal and the deaths of loved ones, the protagonist reminds us of the ways disillusionment both sears and shapes our younger selves. Vargas depicts the heartaches and triumphs of adolescence with tenderness, honesty and humor.” — Sahar Mustafah, author of The Beauty of Your Face, a New York Times 2020 Notable Book “With a keen sense of observation and a sharp sense of humor, Cyn Vargas fully inhabits the voice of Itzel, the narrator of Nothing’s Ever the Same. A moving story of family and the ways we hurt and survive one another, Nothing’s Ever the Same is like Itzel herself: smart, funny, poignant, and real. With this heartfelt novella, Cyn Vargas reminds readers once again why she was named “A Writer to Watch” by Chicago’s Guild Literary Complex. Watch her; read her.” — Patricia Ann McNair, author of Responsible Adults “In Nothing’s Ever the Same, Cyn Vargas offers a deeply human, empathetic, and masterfully observed chronicle of family, love, and those years at the cusp of adulthood filled with wild and vivid emotion. This compact book contains a mighty heart.” — Jeff Zentner, award-winning author of In the Wild Light