Bad Girls

Sosa Villada writes about Córdoba's trans women with a prose that blends the brutal and the magical without either cancelling the other. The community she describes — its marginalisation, its violence, its fierce love — is narrated from the inside with dignity and without pity. There are passages of an unsettling beauty. A completely new voice in Latin American fiction that does exactly what the best literature must do: expand the reader's world.