The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza,Elena Poniatowska,Sarah Booker

By Cristina Rivera Garza,Elena Poniatowska,Sarah Booker

On a dismal and stormy evening, mysterious girls invade an unnamed narrator’s condominium, the place they continue to ruthlessly query their host’s gender and id. The more and more frantic protagonist fails to safeguard his intended masculinity and finally reveals himself in a clinic. A Gothic story of destabilized male-female binaries and subverted literary tropes, this is often the book's first English publication.

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