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Grieving

Dispatches from a Wounded Country

by Cristina Rivera Garza

Narrator Marisa Blake

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Translator Sarah Booker

Length 5 hours

Language English

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Summary
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This hybrid collection of short crónicas, journalism, and personal essays on systemic violence in contemporary Mexico and along the US-Mexico border draws together literary theory and historical analysis to outline how neoliberalism, corruption, and drug trafficking—culminating in the misnamed “war on drugs”—has shaped Mexico. Working from and against this political context, Cristina Rivera Garza posits that collective grief is an act of resistance against state violence and that writing is a powerful mode of seeking social justice and embodying resilience. As she states, “As we write, as we work with language—the humblest and most powerful force available to us—we activate the potential of words, phrases, sentences. Writing as we grieve, grieving as we write: a practice able to create refuge from the open. Writing with others. Grieving like someone who takes refuge from the open. Grieving, which is always a radically different mode of writing.”

History Nonfiction Social Science

Cristina Rivera Garza is an award-winning author, translator, and critic. Her books, originally written in Spanish, have been translated into multiple languages. She has won the Roger Caillois Award for Latin American Literature, the Anna Seghers-Preis, and the International Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize. In 2020, she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Grant. She received her PhD in 2012 in Latin American history from the University of Houston, where she teaches.

Marisa Blake is a multi-award-winning audiobook narrator and voiceover artist who is bilingual in both English and Spanish. Passionate about children's literature, she created the YouTube channel Miss Bee’s Audio Reads and regularly volunteers with Learning Ally, an organization that records audiobooks for children with learning disabilities. She enjoys spending time with her husband and three boys in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina.

Sarah Booker is an English-to-Spanish translator and PhD candidate at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research revolves around contemporary Latin American narratives and translation studies. She is particularly interested in the relationship between translation and identity in the region, as well as fictional representations of translation.