Skinner allows his characters to speak in a language that is evocative, unsentimental, and empirical.--Pasatiempo

New Mexico is fertile literary soil for José Skinner's second story collection, The Tombstone Race. The fourteen stories explore society through the lens of ethnicity, class, friendship, family conflict, and generational friction. Believable, quirky characters, young and old, inhabit the stories.--Albuquerque Journal

New Mexico is fertile literary soil for José Skinner's second story collection, The Tombstone Race. The fourteen stories explore society through the lens of ethnicity, class, friendship, family conflict, and generational friction. Believable, quirky characters, young and old, inhabit the stories.--Albuquerque Journal

Skinner's stories are smart and colloquial, conflicted and comical. . . . He doesn't pull punches with roles and he allows the individuals he follows to roam outside the box of assumed roles.--Austin American-Statesman

José Skinner's long-awaited second collection measures up to, and indeed surpasses, his critically acclaimed debut Flight and Other Stories. . . . Such dazzling storytelling was worth the wait.--Rigoberto González, NBC News Latino

The authenticity of José Skinner's experiences as a Spanish/English interpreter in the courtrooms of the Southwest hit harder than an NFL linebacker.--Latina

With verisimilitude, compassion, and a surprising amount of nobility, Skinner navigates the mean streets of New Mexico with cunning and grace.--Kirkus Reviews

A rare and stunning collection. These are powerful and necessary stories that we've gone too long without, and now that Skinner has brought them to us in such shimmering prose and unflinching empathy, we are in his debt.
--Bret Anthony Johnston, author of Remember Me Like This: A Novel and Corpus Christi: Stories