New and Selected Stories

A 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 about Cristina Rivera Garza, "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 30 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.

Author: Cristina Rivera Garza
Publisher: Dorothy a Publishing Project
Published: 04/12/2022
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 7.09h x 5.58w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9781948980098


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2022
Publishers Weekly 02/07/2022
Shelf Awareness 04/19/2022

About the Author
Cristina Rivera Garza is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Taiga Syndrome, also available from Dorothy, a publishing project. Originally written in Spanish, her books have been translated into English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, and more. Born in Mexico in 1964, she has lived in the United States since 1989, and is currently Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Houston. She was awarded the MacArthur "Genius Grant" in 2020 for her fiction, and her nonfiction book Grieving was finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism.