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The Iliac Crest - Sarah Booker & Cristina Rivera Garza

By Sarah Booker & Cristina Rivera Garza

Release Date: 2017-10-16

Genre: Fiction & Literature

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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 narratorā€™s house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their hostā€™s identity. The women are strangely intimateā€•even inventing together an incomprehensible, fluid languageā€•and 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 ā€œutterly weird yet deeply resonant in its portrayal of gendered violenceā€ (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.  

The Iliac Crest - Sarah Booker & Cristina Rivera Garza

By Sarah Booker & Cristina Rivera Garza

Release Date: 2017-10-16

Genre: Fiction & Literature

3.5 (5 ratings)
Read Download
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 narratorā€™s house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their hostā€™s identity. The women are strangely intimateā€•even inventing together an incomprehensible, fluid languageā€•and 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 ā€œutterly weird yet deeply resonant in its portrayal of gendered violenceā€ (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.  

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