A debut linked story collection of gritty streetwise and wickedly funny fiction from Mexico Life s a bitch That s why you gotta rattle her cage even if she s foaming at the mouth In the linked stories of Reservoir Bitches thirteen Mexican women prod the bitch that is Life as they fight sew skirt cheat cry and lie their way through their tangled circumstances 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 survive telling their stories in bold unapologetic voices At once social critique and black comedy Reservoir Bitches is a raucous debut from one of Mexico s most thrilling new writers
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Nació en 1985 en Aguascalientes, México. Es cofundadora y codirectora de la organización feminista Morras Help Morras. Sexto Piso ha publicado su libro de cuentos Perras de reserva (2023), Premio Nacional de Cuento Joven Comala, y su crónica personal Desde los zulos (2024). Sus obras han sido traducidas al inglés, italiano, francés, alemán, turco, griego, portugués y polaco.