Trash / Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny ; translated by JD Pluecker.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Aguilar Zéleny, Sylvia, 1973- author.

Contributor:

• Pluecker, JD, 1979- translator.
• Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

• Basura. English

Language:

• English
• Spanish

Subjects (All):

• Transgender women--Fiction.
• Ciudad Juárez (Mexico)--Fiction.

Genre:

• Novels.

Physical Description:

222 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First US edition.

Place of Publication:

Dallas, Texas : Deep Vellum Publishing, 2022.

Summary:

"Trash interweaves the voices of three women with connections to the municipal garbage dump of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny's English-language debut shows the complexities of survival and joy, love and violence for three women: a teenager abandoned by her guardian at the dump, a scientist doing research on residents of the dump, and a transwoman living nearby who is the matriarch of a group of sex workers. Each character navigates family, abandonment, power, jealousy, greed, and multiple taboos around sexuality and gender violence. Their stories are linked by geography and by ideas of waste and abandonment. As Aguilar Zéleny explores these territories, she asks crucial questions: Who is seen as disposable and why? How do women find their own means of survival and joy in the midst of a perilous sociopolitical context? What does it mean to live a life in a time of austerity and extreme violence? Trash is a critical intervention in Mexican literature"-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

ISBN:

• 9781646052202
• 164605220X

OCLC:

1302577764

Publisher Number:

99995611803

Online:

The Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund Home Page