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Learn moreA 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, “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 thirty 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.
Cristina Rivera Garza is the award-winning author of several books, including Liliana’s Invincible Summer, winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography/Memoir. She is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize. She is the M. D. Anderson Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies and director of the PhD program in creative writing in Spanish at the University of Houston.
Stacey Glemboski is a seasoned voice artist and audiobook narrator of many books in the science fiction and young adult fiction genres.
Timothy Andrés Pabon is an actor and a voice actor, who has been seen on House of Cards and The Wire. As a stage actor, he has worked Off-Broadway, and his regional credits include Center Stage, The Shakespeare Theatre, The Hippodrome, and GALA Hispanic Theatre, among others. Both a Spanish and English audiobook narrator, he has narrated over sixty books, one of which was nominated for a 2015 SOVAS award. He is from Washington, D.C.
Jane Oppenheimer is an experienced narrator, voiceover artist, and actress with a bachelor's degree in theater from Carnegie Mellon University. She has narrated numerous audiobooks and has performed on stage in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Her voiceover work can be heard on commercials as well as corporate campaigns and short documentaries.
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Frankie Corzo is a film and voice-over actress and audiobook narrator. She obtained a BA degree in theater studies from Montclair State University.
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Read by Thom Rivera, Dawn Harvey, Carol Monda, Hillary Huber, Bernadette Dunne, and Kyla Garcia
Cristina Rivera Garza is the award-winning author of several books, including Liliana’s Invincible Summer, winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography/Memoir. She is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize. She is the M. D. Anderson Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies and director of the PhD program in creative writing in Spanish at the University of Houston.
Sarah Booker is a doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a focus on contemporary Latin American narrative and translation studies.
Lisa Dillman is a translator from Spanish and Catalan and a lecturer at Emory University.
Reviews
“Offers English-language readers access to more than thirty years of intriguing writing by one of Mexico’s greatest contemporary authors.”
“This hypnotic, riveting collection…takes on love, migration, and violence…These unsettling yet deeply approachable stories ought to earn Rivera Garza the wider attention she deserves.”
“Enter into the beguiling, menacing, and strangely poignant world that one of Mexico’s best writers creates through her short stories…The stories share an urgent search for meaning and connection.”
“It’s hard to pick a favorite or convince yourself to set the book down.”
“The conceptual cunning of Rivera Garza’s stories cannot account for the passion that warms them.”
“This book is an excellent introduction to a unique writer who deserves to be recognized not just in Mexico, but all over the world. A fine collection, chilling and frequently bizarre in all the best ways.”
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