Bad Girls

A Novel

Bad Girls
Kit Maude, Camila Sosa Villada
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Hardback
h209 x 139mm - 208pg
3 May 2022 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9781635422023
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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 C rdoba, 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.
"This fantastical story about the power of chosen family is entrancing. . . For anyone who wishes their life could be just a little more magical, spend some time with the Bad Girls. " -BuzzFeed "In Bad Girls, the experience that Camila takes as a starting point becomes poetry. . . [She] constructs a language that seems to come from dreams, fairy tales, and adventure novels. For anyone who reads Bad Girls, it' s clear that we' re in the presence of a literary sensation. . . the publication of Camila by a multinational house is a historic event. " -Rolling Stone (Argentina) "Camila Sosa Villada draws inspiration from her past in prostitution and the legend of an Argentine saint for Bad Girls, an homage to sex workers suffused with magic. " -Le Monde
Camila Sosa Villada was born in 1982 in La Falda (C rdoba, Argentina). She is a writer, actress, and singer, and previously earned a living as a sex worker, street vendor, and hourly maid. She holds degrees in communication and theater from the National University of C rdoba. Her play Carnes tolendas, retrato escenico de un travesti was selected for the 2010 National Theater Festival held in La Plata. Her first novel, Bad Girls, won the Premio Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and the Grand Prix de l' Heroine Madame Figaro and will be translated into six languages. Kit Maude is a translator based in Buenos Aires. He has translated dozens of classic and contemporary Latin American writers such as Armonia Somers, Jorge Luis Borges, Lolita Copacabana, and Ariel Magnus for a wide array of publications and writes reviews and criticism for several different outlets in Spanish and English including the Times Literary Supplement, Revista and Otra Parte.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781635422023
Published: 3 May 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Other Press LLC
Publisher: Other Press LLC
Format: Hardback
Height: 209mm
Width: 139mm
Pages: 208

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