Extreme Taboo (10 Taboo Tales)

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Southwest Review, "10 Must-Read Books of 2023" Her translations include Mónica Ojeda’s Jawbone, Gabriela Ponce’s Blood Red, and Cristina Rivera Garza’s New and Selected Stories, Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country, and The Iliac Crest. Any queer-identifying person, and a sizable number of straight ones, will find some rich, inspiring, and provocative ideas to ponder here, all shared in straightforward, accessible language that does away with the jargon often defining discussions of such complex subjects. It confronts the evil, unspeakable aspects of human nature, refusing to turn away its lucid, dissecting gaze. Sarah Booker is an educator and literary translator. This concise collection of spirited essays and joyful illustrations is often funny, occasionally sad, and sometimes mind-bending. ” —Anna Learn, Full Stop Teaching Italian to Chinese students, she meets a mysterious girl named Xu, who is also running from a turbulent past: a violent father, an absent mother, and an extended family who wishes she'd been a boy. Six young artists share an apartment in Barcelona: Kiki Ortega, a researcher writing a pornographic novel; Iván Herrera, a writer whose prose reveals a deeply conflicted relationship with his body; three siblings, Irene, Emilio, and Cecilia, who quietly search for ways to transcend their abuse as children; and El Cuco Martínez, a video-game designer whose creations push beneath the substrate of the digital world. Plan which pride events to attend this year.

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