Description
Across six subtly connected stories set in and around Bogotá, this collection traces the intersecting lives of women and girls on society’s margins, where longing, obsession, and survival collide. As characters navigate urban reinvention, coercive power, and the intimate violence of everyday life, the body becomes both a site of connection and a battleground—recording desire, fear, and memory in marks, habits, and scars. With a keen eye for class, trauma, and the ways people try to control what they cannot change, the book moves from darkly comic moments to heartbreak and sudden shocks. María Ospina’s vibrant, gleaming prose turns lived experience into sharply observed fiction, offering a resonant meditation on agency, vulnerability, and what it costs to be seen.
Available Editions
paperback
Coffee House Press
Published Jul 6, 2021
97 pages
ISBN: 9781566896146
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Details
First Published
2021
Language
spa
Translation
From: spa
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Variations on the Body by María Ospina.