Reservoir Bitches
longlisted for the international booker prize 2025
$28.00
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
2 September 2024
Summary
Reservoir Bitches: Stories of Grit, Wit, and Mexican Women
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
A debut collection of interconnected stories delivering gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny fiction straight from Mexico.
Life’s a bitch. That’s why you gotta rattle her cage, even if she’s foaming at the mouth.
In “Reservoir Bitches,” thirteen Mexican women confront life head-on as they fight, sew, scheme, cheat, cry, and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761380419 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761380419 |
| Author: | Dahlia de la Cerda |
| Publisher: | Scribe Publications |
| Imprint: | Scribe Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 2 September 2024 |
| Weight: | 206g |
| Dimensions: | 209mm x 136mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Dahlia de la Cerda
Dahlia de la Cerda (Author)
Dahlia de la Cerda is a Mexican writer and activist. She has a BA in Philosophy and won the Comala Young National Short Story Award for Reservoir Bitches. She is also the author of the essay ‘Feminismo sin cuarto propio’, which is included in the anthology Tsunami 2, and co-founder of the feminist organisation Morras Help Morras. Her short story ‘The Smile’ was included in the first issue of Astra Magazine, and Reservoir Bitches is currently being developed as a series by Amazon Studios and Perro Azul.
Julia Sanches (Translator)
Julia Sanches translates literature from Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan into English. Born in Brazil, she now lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Heather Cleary (Translator)
Heather Cleary is an award-winning translator of poetry and prose whose work has been recognised by English PEN, the National Book Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation, among others.
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