Name: Bad Girls: A Novel
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Author: Villada, Camila ; Maude, Kit
ISBN: 9781635422023

Type

Physical Book

Author

Camila Sosa Villada

Translated by

Kit Maude

Publisher

Other Press (NY)

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

208

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.4x12.8x2.3 cm

Weight

0.35 kg.

ISBN13

9781635422023

Synopsis "Bad Girls: A Novel "

Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman's tale about finding a community on the margins. In Sarmiento Park, the green heart of Córdoba, a group of trans sex workers make their nightly rounds. When a cry comes from the dark, their leader, the 178-year-old Auntie Encarna, wades into the brambles to investigate and discovers a baby half dead from the cold. She quickly rallies the pack to save him, and they adopt the child into their fascinating surrogate family as they have so many other outcasts, including Camila. Sheltered in Auntie Encarna's fabled pink house, they find a partial escape from the everyday threats of disease and violence, at the hands of clients, cops, and boyfriends. Telling their stories--of a mute young woman who transforms into a bird, of a Headless Man who fled his country's wars--as well as her own journey from a toxic home in a small, poor town, Camila traces the life of this vibrant community throughout the 90s. Imbuing reality with the magic of a dark fairy tale, Bad Girls offers an intimate, nuanced portrait of trans coming-of-age that captures a universal sense of the strangeness of our bodies. It grips and entertains us while also challenging ideas about love, sexuality, gender, and identity.

Camila Sosa Villada

(Author)

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(1982, Córdoba, Argentina) studied four years of Social Communication and another four years of Theater at the National University of Córdoba. In 2009, she premiered her first show, Carnes tolendas, a scenic portrait of a transvestite. She is the author of the poetry book La novia de Sandro (2015-2020), the essay El viaje inútil (2018), the novel Las malas (2019) and the storybook Soy una tonta por quererte (2022). For Las malas, she received the international awards Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2020, Finestres de Narrativa 2020, and the Grand Prix de l´Héroïne Madame Figaro 2021, and was considered one of the best novels published in 2020. It has been translated into more than twenty languages.

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