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The Iliac Crest
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Surreal and gothic, The Iliac Crest is a masterful excavation of forgotten Mexican women writers, illustrating the myriad ways that gendered language can wield destructive power.On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrators house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their hosts identity. The women are strangely intimateeven inventing together an incomprehensible, fluid languageand harass the narrator by repeatedly claiming that they know his greatest secret: that he is, in fact, a woman. As the increasingly frantic protagonist fails to defend his supposed masculinity, he eventually finds himself in a sanatorium.Published for the first time in English, this Gothic tale is utterly weird yet deeply resonant in its portrayal of gendered violence (The Millions). Through layered and haunting prose, Cristina Rivera Garza unravels the cultural and political histories of Mexico, probing at the misogyny that fuels the disappearance of women in literature and in real life. Astounding and thoughtprovoking. Publishers Weekly (starred review)An intelligent, beautiful story about bodies disguised as a story about language disguised as a story about night terrors. Cristina Rivera Garza does not respect what is expected of a writer, of a novel, of language. She is an agitator. Yuri Herrera, author of Kingdom ConsPublished for the first time in English, this Gothic tale destabilizes malefemale binaries and subverts literary tropes.
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