{"title":"Cristina Rivera Garza","description":"Cristina Rivera Garza is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Liliana's Invincible Summer. A MacArthur Fellow, she is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Chair and founder of the University of Houston's PhD in Creative Writing in Spanish. Christina MacSweeney is the award-winning literary translator of works by Julián Herbert, Valeria Luiselli, and Elvira Navarro. She received the 2024 Sundial Literary Translation Award for her translation of Verónica Gerber Bicecci's The Company.","products":[{"product_id":"death-takes-me-paperback","title":"Death Takes Me - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eLiliana's Invincible Summer, \u003c\/i\u003ea dreamlike, genre-defying novel about a professor and detective seeking justice in a world suffused with gendered violence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Deeply rewarding . . . a dreamscape with a powerful undertow . . . [a] harrowing and labyrinthine masterpiece.\"--Katie Kitamura, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e(Editors' Choice)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Esquire, Marie Claire, \u003c\/i\u003eDenver Public Library\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA city is always a cemetery.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA professor named Cristina Rivera Garza stumbles upon the corpse of a mutilated man in a dark alley and reports it to the police. When shown a crime scene photo, she finds a stark warning written in tiny print with coral nail polish on the brick wall beside the body: \"Beware of me, my love \/ beware of the silent woman in the desert.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe professor becomes the first informant on the case, which is led by a detective newly obsessed with poetry and trailed by a long list of failures. But what has the professor really seen? As the bodies of more castrated men are found alongside lines of verse, the detective tries to decipher the meaning of the poems to put a stop to the violence spreading throughout the city. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOriginally written in Spanish, where the word \"victim\" is always feminine, \u003ci\u003e Death Takes Me\u003c\/i\u003e is a thrilling masterpiece of literary fiction that flips the traditional crime narrative of gendered violence on its head. As sharp as the cuts on the bodies of the victims, it unfolds with the charged logic of a dream, moving from the police station to the professor's classroom and through the slippery worlds of Latin American poetry and art in an imaginative exploration of the unstable terrains of desire and sexuality.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101160313055,"sku":"9780593737026","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/am5A8g6LmV9780593737026.webp?v=1781068376"},{"product_id":"autobiography-of-cotton-paperback","title":"Autobiography of Cotton - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1934, a young José Revueltas traveled to Tamaulipas to support the cotton workers' strike in Estación Camarón, which became the basis of his landmark novel \u003ci\u003eHuman Mourning\u003c\/i\u003e. In her own groundbreaking novel, \u003ci\u003eAutobiography of Cotton\u003c\/i\u003e, Cristina Rivera Garza recounts her grandparents' journey from mining towns to those same cotton fields as it intersects with Revueltas's life in a vivid and evocative history of cotton cultivation along the Mexico-US border. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough archival research and personal narrative, Rivera Garza chronicles the way cotton transformed the borderlands by reconstructing the cotton workers' strike and reveals how cycles of deprivation and ecocide persist across generations. Deeply personal and politically acute, Rivera Garza crafts a new kind of border novel that tells how a brittle land radically altered her grandparents' lives and the territories they helped develop. An intimate fictionalization, \u003ci\u003eAutobiography of Cotton\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a rich social history of agricultural colonization, labor activism, environmental degradation, and cross-border migration.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102295331039,"sku":"9781644453698","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/zaxZvMhVIw9781644453698.webp?v=1781079301"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/cristina-rivera-garza.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}