Cristina Rivera Garza

The Iliac Crest

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On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator’s house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their host’s gender and identity. The increasingly frantic protagonist fails to defend his supposed masculinity and eventually finds himself in a sanatorium. A Gothic tale of destabilized male-female binaries and subverted literary tropes, this is the book's first English publication.
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132 printed pages
Original publication
2017
Publication year
2017
Translator
Sarah Booker
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  • Miranda Pérez Pérez Abreuhas quoted5 years ago
    We say, for example, that when I met Amparo Dávila, I felt desire.
  • Miranda Pérez Pérez Abreuhas quoted5 years ago
    When I remembered that she was right in front of me, whole and wet, shaking in the cold, I already knew everything about her. And I suppose this was the third reason I opened the door and, without completely letting go of the doorknob, invited her in.
  • Miranda Pérez Pérez Abreuhas quoted5 years ago
    And that was, I would like to believe, the second reason I let her in: the expansive power of her gaze.

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