The Iliac Crest (2002)

by Cristina Rivera-Garza

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"On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator's house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their host's gender and identity. The increasingly frantic protagonist fails to defend his supposed masculinity and eventually finds himself in a sanatorium. A Gothic tale of destabilized male-female binaries and subverted literary tropes, this is the book's first English publication"--… (more)

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I loved it. Did I get it? Mmm. Connecting to moments and thoughts, yes. If you asked me at any point "what exactly is happening in this passage," you'd get some wildly contradictory answers. I think that's maybe the point. Anyway I'm more interested, because I never remember to write down where I found a book... Did I come to this after adding Amparo Davila to my list, or did I discover Davila after finding this book? (

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Cristina Rivera-Garza	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Booker, Sarah	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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La cresta de Ilión

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2002

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"On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator's house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their host's gender and identity. The increasingly frantic protagonist fails to defend his supposed masculinity and eventually finds himself in a sanatorium. A Gothic tale of destabilized male-female binaries and subverted literary tropes, this is the book's first English publication"--

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