Book Nook - I'm a Fool to Want You: Stories

 

Dazzling stories comprise I'm a Fool to Want You: Stories (On-sale: 5/28/2024) from the internationally acclaimed author of Bad Girls, Camila Sosa Villada. Gritty and unflinching, exuding tenderness and humor, the fine line between fantasy and reality blurs in this latest work from Sosa Villada, solidifying her as force of literary talent. In the 1990s, a woman makes a living as a rental girlfriend for gay men. In a Harlem den, a travesti gets to know none other than Billie Holiday. A group of rugby players haggle over the price of a night of sex, and in return they get what they deserve. Nuns, grandmothers, children, and dogs are never what they seem. These 9 stories are inhabited by extravagant and profoundly human characters who face an ominous reality in ways as strange as themselves. I’m a Fool to Want You boldly questions assumptions about bodies and community, and shifts the lens through which we perceive gender, sexuality, identity and belonging and surely confirms Sosa Villada as one of the most powerful and original voices in contemporary literature. With her daring imagination, she can speak the language of a victim of the Mexican Inquisition, or create a dystopian universe where travestis take their revenge. With her unique style, Sosa Villada blends everyday life and magic, honoring the oral tradition with unparalleled fluency. Mesmerizing, raw and brilliant, Sosa Villada’s latest is sure to leave readers ruminating over each story’s resonances.

About the author: Camila Sosa Villada was born in 1982 in La Falda (Córdoba, Argentina). She is a writer, actress, and singer, and previously earned a living as a sex worker, street vendor, and hourly maid. She holds degrees in communication and theater from the National University of Córdoba. Her play Carnes tolendas, retrato escénico de un travesti was selected for the 2010 National Theater Festival held in La Plata. Her first novel, Bad Girls (Other Press, 2022), won the Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Grand Prix de l’Héroïne Madame Figaro. About the translator: Kit Maude is a translator based in Buenos Aires. He has translated dozens of classic and contemporary Latin American writers such as Armonía Somers, Jorge Luis Borges, Lolita Copacabana, and Ariel Magnus for a wide array of publications, and writes reviews and criticism for several different outlets in Spanish and English including the Times Literary Supplement, Revista Ñ, and Otra Parte.