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A Novel
by Camila Sosa Villada
A hilarious, heartbreaking, and subversive novel about an actress who's grown sick unto death of her own success story.
"A single travesti is enough to undermine the foundations of a house, undo the knots of a commitment, break a promise, renounce a life," reflects the unforgettable actress at the heart of Camila Sosa Villada's provocative and page-turning new novel—a travesti, Sosa Villada's chosen term for trans women like herself, a reclaimed slur that celebrates the boundary-crossing spirit. From hardscrabble rural beginnings, the actress has worked hard to acquire all the trappings of conventional success: an attorney husband who caters to her, a child, a thriving career as a diva of the stage. So why does she feel so stifled and unfulfilled? When the family embarks on a weekend visit to the actress's hometown in the countryside, a ticking time bomb threatens to explode.
Sexy, funny, deeply moving, and unapologetic in its ambivalence, this novel reinvents the tragicomedy of domestic dysfunction for us all.
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Camila Sosa Villada is an Argentine writer, actress, and singer who previously earned a living as a sex worker, street vendor, and hourly maid. Her first novel, Bad Girls, won the Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Grand Prix de l'Héroïne Madame Figaro and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She lives in Córdoba.
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