RiffRaff Books: Julia Sanches (translator) reads from RESERVOIR BITCHES

Dahlia de la Cerda’s debut RESERVOIR BITCHES is a collection of gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny stories about Mexican women who fight, skirt, cheat, cry, kill, and lie their way to survival.

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“Life’s a bitch. That’s why you gotta rattle her cage, even if she’s foaming at the mouth.” In these linked stories, thirteen Mexican women prod the bitch that is Life and become her. From the all-powerful daughter of a cartel boss to the victim of transfemicide, from a houseful of spinster seamstresses to a socialite who supports her politician husband by faking Indigenous roots, these women spit on their own reduction and invent new ways to endure, telling their own stories in bold, unapologetic voices. At once a work of dark humor and social critique, RESERVOIR BITCHES is a raucous debut from one of Mexico’s most thrilling new writers, and her renowned translator Julia Sanches will read from and discuss this very special book.