{"product_id":"iliac-crest","title":"Iliac Crest","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eIliac Crest\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eCristina Rivera Garza\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781558614352\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Feminist Press at CUNY\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2017\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSurreal and gothic, \u003cem\u003eThe Iliac Crest\u003c\/em\u003e is a masterful excavation of forgotten Mexican women writers, illustrating the myriad ways that gendered language can wield destructive power. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator's house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their host's identity. The women are strangely intimate―even inventing together an incomprehensible, fluid language―and harass the narrator by repeatedly claiming 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished for the first time in English, this Gothic tale is \"utterly weird yet deeply resonant in its portrayal of gendered violence\" (\u003cem\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/em\u003e). Through layered and haunting prose, Cristina Rivera Garza unravels the cultural and political histories of Mexico, probing at the misogyny that fuels the disappearance of women in literature and in real life. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAstounding and thought-provoking. --\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/em\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"An intelligent, beautiful story about bodies disguised as a story about language disguised as a story about night terrors. Cristina Rivera Garza does not respect what is expected of a writer, of a novel, of language. She is an agitator.\" --Yuri Herrera, author of \u003cem\u003eKingdom Cons\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePublished for the first time in English, this Gothic tale destabilizes male-female binaries and subverts literary tropes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"The Feminist Press at CUNY","offers":[{"title":"Iliac Crest | Cristina Rivera Garza | Paperback | 9781558614352 | New | Fiction 1286579","offer_id":48162464891032,"sku":"1286579","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/51sL0X_EaZL.jpg?v=1771869901","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/iliac-crest","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}