Variations on the Body - María Ospina

- These stories confront feminist and anti-imperial subjects such as female friendship and desire, women's relationships to their bodies and those of others, political insurgency, heteronormativity, state violence, and the strictures of economic and social class.- Author teaches at Wesleyan and lives in CT; available for interviews and book events- Stories are linked together by various characters, making a compelling. throughline/narrative arc that should broaden the audience beyond diehard short story readers.- We're excited to bring a new Colombian author into English and onto our growing and acclaimed list of Latin American translations.- Translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary, who also translated Roque Larraquy's Comemadre, longlisted for the National Book Award in Translated Literature.- For readers of Lesley Arimah, Carmen Boullosa, Idra Novey, and Joy Williams.