In Wilder Winds, writer and translator Bel Olid brings together a
stunning collection of short stories that draw on notions of individual
freedom, abuses of power, ingrained social violence, life on the
outskirts of society, and inevitable differences. Alongside these
themes, she places small acts of kindness capable of changing the world
and making it a better place. Like a flower that stubbornly grows and
blooms in the cracks of the pavement. Olid's work seeks out beauty
without renouncing truth, and never avoids conflict or intimacy. Wilder
Winds creates scenes and fragile, yet hardy characters that will stay
with the reader for years to come.