interesting stories but had little to do with business

This was a collection of stories that didn't really pull through a culture of business in Texas. It was more a series of stories of individuals. While interesting, as a native Texan I found very little new insight. It seemed like an outsider's perspective upon visiting Texas rather than a true insight into how our culture interrelates. The description of the day Selena was murdered, for instance, was compared to how Americans felt the day Kennedy was assassinate. But that's a gross mischaracterization. The cultural impact was similar for a small segment of the population in Texas. But for most others it was more like finding out a local person was gone and finding out, posthumously, how wonderful that person was. In that regard her death is more closely related to someone like Vincent Van Gogh, who is revered in death but only reached local acclaim while alive. She was a wonderful person and gifted artist. But her legacy is greater because of her untimely death. She has since become woven into the fabric of South and Central Texas as an icon similar to Frida Kahlo. Nobody is claiming she had the impact in life of Kennedy. But in death many find her life story and struggle relatable and THAT is why she's important, because her death gave life and shone a light on the lives of others. It's mentioned, but I felt the same glancing blow to the heart of the culture with the others as well. To read the book you might think these were separate cultures. But a Texan feels them all as one interwoven fabric rather than a patchwork quilt. Screwed music carried the same sense of missed opportunity that Selena's death had. Again, good stories, but left as a collection of disconnected stories it falls short of just how connected each of these stories is and how they all make up the non-homogeneous yet connected subcultures that combine to form the sense of being Texan. But I still didn't get how the title connected to this compilation.

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