BOOKS FROM MEXICOReservoir Bitches : Stories
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Set in Mexico
Female author
Description:
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A debut linked story collection of gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny fiction from Mexico. Life's a bitch. That's why you gotta rattle her cage, even if she's foaming at the mouth. In the linked stories of Reservoir Bitches, thirteen Mexican women prod the bitch that is Life as they fight, sew, skirt, cheat, cry, and lie their way through their tangled circumstances. From the all-powerful daughter of a cartel boss to the victim of transfemicide, from a houseful of spinster seamstresses to a socialite who supports her politician husband by faking Indigenous roots, these women spit on their own reduction and invent new ways to survive, telling their stories in bold, unapologetic voices. At once social critique and black comedy, Reservoir Bitchesis a raucous debut from one of Mexico's most thrilling new writers.
Reviews:
(8 months ago) |
09 Feb, 2025
Maybe that’s your mission. To gather the bones of dead woman, to piece them together and tell their stories, and then to let them run free’
These stories are going to stay with me for some time. The violence against woman and the choices choices that are forced.
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