A story collection drawn from across her career brings into English
for the first time the extraordinary stylistic and thematic range of the
Mexican writer and MacArthur "genius" Cristina Rivera Garza.
"One of Mexico's greatest living writers," wrote Jonathan Lethem in 2018
about Cristina Rivera Garza, "we are just barely beginning to catch up
to what she has to offer." In the years since, Rivera Garza's work has
received widespread recognition: She was awarded a MacArthur Genius
Grant for fiction that "interrogates culturally constructed notions of
language, memory, and gender from a transnational perspective," and was
a finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award for
Criticism. Yet we have still only started to discover the full range of
a writer who is at once an incisive voice on migration, borders, and
violence against women, as well as a high stylist in the manner of
Lispector or Duras.
New and Selected Stories now brings together in English translation
stories from across Rivera Garza's career, drawing from three
collections spanning over 30 years and including new writing not yet
published in Spanish. It is a unique and remarkable body of work, and a
window into the ever-evolving stylistic and thematic development of one
of the boldest, most original and affecting writers in the world today.
