New and Selected Stories, Cristina Rivera Garza
New and Selected Stories, Cristina Rivera Garza
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Synopsis

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, “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 thirty 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.

About Cristina Rivera Garza

Cristina Rivera Garza is the award-winning author of several books, including  Liliana’s Invincible Summer, winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography/Memoir. She is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize. She is the M. D. Anderson Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies and director of the PhD program in creative writing in Spanish at the University of Houston.

About Sarah Booker

Sarah Booker is a doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a focus on contemporary Latin American narrative and translation studies.

About Lisa Dillman

Lisa Dillman is a translator from Spanish and Catalan and a lecturer at Emory University.

About Stacey Glemboski

Stacey Glemboski is a seasoned voice artist and audiobook narrator of many books in the science fiction and young adult fiction genres.

About Timothy Andrés Pabon

Timothy Andrés Pabon is an English- and Spanish-speaking voice-over artist who has worked extensively in advertising and audiobook narration. He has had acting roles on House of Cards and The Wire. As a stage actor, he has worked off-Broadway and his regional credits include Center Stage, the Shakespeare Theatre, Arena Stage, and the Hippodrome.

About Jane Oppenheimer

Jane Oppenheimer is an experienced narrator, voiceover artist, and actress with a bachelor's degree in theater from Carnegie Mellon University. She has narrated numerous audiobooks and has performed on stage in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Her voiceover work can be heard on commercials as well as corporate campaigns and short documentaries.

About Natasha Soudek

Natasha Soudek is an experienced actor, singer, and audiobook narrator. The daughter of two English professors, she grew up in the southern United States, Berlin, and Vienna. Her work includes Super Bowl commercials, television shows, playing sold-out live music shows, and appearing as the first blonde Vulcan in Star Trek history. She currently resides in New York City.

About Frankie Corzo

Frankie Corzo is a film and voice-over actress and audiobook narrator. She obtained a BA degree in theater studies from Montclair State University.

About Kirsten Potter

Kirsten Potter has performed at theaters across the country, including the Geffen Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Laguna Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and Arena Stage. Her film and TV work include Judging AmyBones, and The Eyes Have It; and she has voiced numerous roles for animation and video games. Kirsten has narrated numerous audiobooks, including Hattie Big Sky, If I Stay, Madapple, The Neighbor, Sammy's House, and The Snowball. She has received three AudioFile Earphones Awards for her outstanding narration.


Reviews

Goodreads review by David

I’m coming around to the view that Cristina Rivera Garza is one of the most vital writers working today. Her work exploring the transience of identify, the limitations of language, and the erasure of the female experience is both timely and necessary. These and other themes are powerfully explored i......more

Goodreads review by Paul

Longlisted for the 2022 Republic of Consciousness Prize, US & Canada Before choosing my destiny, I had read about them. A strange book, half history and half legend. A book from a library in the city. I read it immoderately, as I used to do in those days. With the moistened tip of my index finger per......more


Quotes

“Enter into the beguiling, menacing, and strangely poignant world that one of Mexico’s best writers creates through her short stories…The stories share an urgent search for meaning and connection.” World Literature Today

“It’s hard to pick a favorite or convince yourself to set the book down.” NPR

“The conceptual cunning of Rivera Garza’s stories cannot account for the passion that warms them.” New Yorker

“Offers English-language readers access to more than thirty years of intriguing writing by one of Mexico’s greatest contemporary authors.” Shelf Awareness

“This hypnotic, riveting collection…takes on love, migration, and violence…These unsettling yet deeply approachable stories ought to earn Rivera Garza the wider attention she deserves.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“This book is an excellent introduction to a unique writer who deserves to be recognized not just in Mexico, but all over the world. A fine collection, chilling and frequently bizarre in all the best ways.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)


Awards

  • New Yorker Best Books of the Year