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The Big Chihuahua
Published by Rare Bird Books
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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About the Book
For readers of Gary Shteyngart, Jennifer Egan, Nathan Hill, and Gabrielle Zevin—a literary novel with bite, heart, humor, and a voice all its own.
San Francisco, the late 1990s. The internet is minting millionaires, Critical Mass is clogging the streets, and the hype sounds a lot like today's. Enter Joe Hart—former revolutionary, current hustler, lousy father. When Joe bets his daughter Emma's fortune on an insider stock tip, he sets in motion a story of schemers and dreamers, artists and avengers, in a city on the brink of everything.
Emma—sharp, funny, and quietly fierce—finds her true family among the city's troublemakers: a Polish performance artist with dynamite in her heart, a former revolutionary teaching women the art of the counterstrike, and a Vietnam bomb-defuser who's seen this movie before.
Social history with a grin, a fairy tale with teeth, and pure pleasure page to page, The Big Chihuahua is a book to root for, full of characters you'll hate to leave.
San Francisco, the late 1990s. The internet is minting millionaires, Critical Mass is clogging the streets, and the hype sounds a lot like today's. Enter Joe Hart—former revolutionary, current hustler, lousy father. When Joe bets his daughter Emma's fortune on an insider stock tip, he sets in motion a story of schemers and dreamers, artists and avengers, in a city on the brink of everything.
Emma—sharp, funny, and quietly fierce—finds her true family among the city's troublemakers: a Polish performance artist with dynamite in her heart, a former revolutionary teaching women the art of the counterstrike, and a Vietnam bomb-defuser who's seen this movie before.
Social history with a grin, a fairy tale with teeth, and pure pleasure page to page, The Big Chihuahua is a book to root for, full of characters you'll hate to leave.
About the Author
Daniel Ben-Horin made his literary debut as editor of the Fountain Pen literary magazine of McBurney Junior High School in New York in 1960, but detoured in favor of a career as a journalist, early online flaneur, and social entrepreneur. He has written nonfiction for The New York Times, Mother Jones, The Nation, and other periodicals. His debut novel, Substantial Justice, was released in 2020. He attended Bronx Science and the University of Chicago, was fired by the Arizona Republic, edited the Arizona New Times, organized tenants and media workers in San Francisco and built, over the course of thirty years, a global nonprofit called TechSoup.
Product Details
- Publisher: Rare Bird Books (November 24, 2026)
- Length: 240 pages
- ISBN13: 9781644285855
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Raves and Reviews
"What Ben-Horin does well is create an entertaining tableau of Bay Area characters caught between their past mistakes and present possibilities. The result is an amusing portrait of an important period in recent American history."
– Kirkus Reviews
“A joy to read. Who can resist a mix of intrigue, cannabis, and fraught romance?”
– Joan Silber, PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author of Improvement on Substantial Justice
“Raymond Chandler meets Jane Austen in post-Vietnam America. Excellent stuff.”
– William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barbarian Days on Substantial Justice
“A deftly composed and highly enjoyable crime story."
– Kirkus on Substantial Justice
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