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THE BURTS is a short novel.

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When You Find Us We Will Be Gone is a collection of short stories exploring several themes: place and identity in the American landscape; public and private conflicts in Tibet; the role of art in the Holocaust. The stories are set in America, Croatia, Japan, Germany, and Tibet, where the characters imbibe strangeness from their surroundings and in doing so chart loneliness and dissatisfaction with life. / Master of Fine Arts

The [tombstone] symbol is a typographical initialism used in mathematics to signify the end of a proof. It is known colloquially as the "tombstone." The stories in this collection carry both senses of the symbol. Characters not only reach the end of once-familiar systems--marriage, freedom, life, faith--but they also live in a universe where proof and certainty can no longer be taken for granted. A child who desperately wants to believe in his inherent goodness must face the possibility that he is in fact as flawed as those he scorns. A man watches his family shrink away from him after he commits a series of selfish acts. An addict's childhood, fraught with isolation, haunts her ability to heal in adulthood. As for tombstones, these stories are obsessed with death, finality, and endings, which reveal more about a person's true self than where they began. When asked "what is a story?", Diane Williams replied, "Can a story be a dream come true?" The stories collected here are dream-like as well, simplistic and estranged from common logics, formed from an unconscious urge to believe that there is indeed a more perfect world waiting for us in the near distance. In this collection, the hunger for wholeness persists; the possibility for a happy ending, however, remains as unlikely as rewriting one's past. / Master of Fine Arts

On March 30th 2006, at the age of forty, my brother, who I grew up with and looked up to as a child, who'd started to lose his mind in his early 20s, killed his wife and her mother. He left his three boys orphaned and traumatized. My father, Orestes Fuentes, was born in 1928, in a farm deep in the Cuban countryside where there were spirits and saints and demons and Santeria rituals, and curses were real. This book will explore our father's prejudices and superstitions and his refusal to acknowledge his son's demons, in an effort to find the reasons why his son, my brother, Jose, eventually killed the mother and grandmother of his children, the why he thought they were agents of Satan. My book explores a curse that Orestes (and therefore all of us) incurred, and the sins that caused it. The book looks at the apogee of that curse: my brother's murders and, ultimately, the reversal of that curse, which, in writing it, I realized, is what this book is. / Master of Fine Arts