Reservoir Bitches: Stories
by Dahlia de la Cerda
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LONGLISTED for the 2025 International Booker Prize
A debut collection of gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny stories about Mexican women who fight, skirt, cheat, cry, kill, and lie their way to survival.
"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 and become her. 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 endure, telling their own stories in bold, unapologetic voices. At once a work of black humor and social critique, Reservoir Bitches is a raucous debut from one of Mexico's most thrilling new writers.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9781558613119
- Binding
- Paperback
- Authors
- Dahlia de la Cerda
- Publisher
- Feminist Press
- Published Date
- September 10, 2024
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 192
- Physical Info
- 7.9 in L x 4.9 in W (0.5 lb)
Great book. Great characters
Dahlia de la Cerda gives a powerful and disturbing voice to a reality that most readers only know of through the media. These stories confront the reader to a complex reality full of desire, dreams, glamor, sensuality, struggle, poverty, power, fear, and extreme violence. These stories are a must read for anyone interested in opening their eyes and hearts to the women Dahlia gives voice to and the act of femicide.
Reservoir Bitches is a collection of thirteen interconnected stories set in Mexico, exploring themes of poverty, social inequality, femicide, organized crime, friendship, and loss. Each character is full of personality, and I loved how the stories subtly linked together.The only issue I found was I had trouble distinguishing one character from another. I enjoyed the stories but didn't love them.As a debut, Dahlia de la Cerda's work is impressive, and I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for more from her.I highly recommend Dead Girls by Selva Almada, which is mentioned in the last story of the book.
Stories were redundant and voice was the same in all. This made it unclear who's point of view was being shared.
First read of the year and I’m so glad I started with this
