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Incandescent … [Rivera Garza] revels in the unexpected, eschewing the straightforward at all times, but never in a showy way. These stories, focused on traveling, are absolutely beautiful, written with Rivera Garza’s sparkling and enchanting prose. In other words: she’s done it again * Kirkus *
Piercing … Visceral … These impressionistic histories smolder and glow * Publishers Weekly *
Rivera Garza’s mastery unfolds in gorgeous prose and surprising perspectives … [She] proves to be a generous and provocative guide through desire, rage, friendship and hope. Translator MacSweeney has made Rivera Garza’s clever and challenging content and syntax accessible and enjoyable. Readers who love imaginative short stories and Rivera Garza fans will rejoice * Booklist *

Cristina Rivera Garza is the award-winning author of Death Takes Me, The Taiga Syndrome, and The Iliac Crest, among many other books. Her memoir Liliana’s Invincible Summer won the Pulitzer Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, Rivera Garza is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Chair and director of the PhD programme in creative writing in Spanish at the University of Houston.

Christina MacSweeney is an award-winning literary translator, working mainly in the areas of Latin American fiction, essays, poetry, and hybrid texts. She has translated books by such authors as Valeria Luiselli, Daniel Saldaña París, Julián Herbert, Karla Suárez, Jazmina Barrera, Clyo Mendoza, and Elvira Navarro. She also worked with Cristina Rivera Garza on the translation of Autobiography of Cotton. She has contributed to anthologies of Latin American literature and published shorter translations, articles, interviews, and collaborations on a wide variety of platforms.

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