ROMS Ph.D. student Sarah Booker’s translation of Cristina Rivera Garza’s The Iliac Crest will officially be released tomorrow, October 10 with the Feminist Press.
On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator’s house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their host’s identity. While the two women are strangely intimate, even inventing a secret language, they harass the narrator by claiming repeatedly that they know his greatest secret: that he is, in fact, a woman. As the increasingly frantic protagonist fails to defend his supposed masculinity, he eventually finds himself in a sanatorium.
Published for the first time in English, this Gothic tale destabilizes male-female binaries and subverts literary tropes.
http://www.feministpress.org/books-a-m/the-iliac-crest