These early stories by the award-winning novelist, David Allan Cates, take place in Mexico and Central America during the war years of the 1980s. The protagonists are exiled loversbroken for the most part and trying to make sense of their new world of grief. Far from home and working in a boatyard, on a movie set, a banana freighter, as a veal salesman, medical interpreter, writer, and Sandinista volunteer, theyre forced to re-imagine not only love, peace, suffering, and beauty but the meaning of their very own lives. The stories in David Allan Catess Imagining Tanya, sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious, are always