Trash interweaves the voices of three women with lived connections to the municipal garbage dump of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.&nbsp; 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 the residents of the dump, and a transwoman living nearby who is the matriarch of a group of sex workers.&nbsp; Each one of the characters 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.&nbsp; As Aguilar Zéleny explores these territories in her book, 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&nbsp;is a critical intervention in Mexican literature.

Trash

Literature & Fiction

Aguilar Zéleny, Sylvia

Literary

Deep Vellum Publishing

Alex has two dreams: to become a farmer and a man. There's only one problem: Alex is a girl who believes she was born in the wrong body. She has never shared the truth about herself, not even with her best friend, until now. Alex is about to discover the meaning of the word trans and that her dream can become real. This novel explores the challenging life of a small town transsexual. Coming Out is a six-book series from EPIC Press. Each EPIC Press series is made up of 6 short installments, intended for readers 14 and older.

Alex (Coming Out, 6)

Teen & Young Adult

Epic Pr

Seventeen-year-old Leroy wants to study art and become a painter. Although he has good relationships with his family and friends, Leroy is far from being happy. With his older brother now in jail, Leroy feels even more trapped by his big secret. He is gay and doesn't dare come out and disrupt an already difficult time for his family. Leroy goes on an incredible-- yet painful and terrifying--journey from Dallas to Taos, and from fear to love. Coming Out is a six-book series from EPIC Press.

Leroy (Coming Out, 3)

Basura

Genre Fiction

Editorial Tránsito

Toda escritura es una búsqueda, pero sólo algunas son un&nbsp;hallazgo. Como ésta de El Libro de Aisha, de Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny, dotada de&nbsp;belleza, inteligencia y profunda humanidad.» Gabriela Cabezón Cámara «El Libro de Aisha documenta las cotidianas y minúsculas catástrofes que&nbsp;una ausencia irreparable ocasiona al interior de una familia cuando uno de&nbsp;sus miembros se transforma en un desconocido. ¿En quién nos convertimos nosotros&nbsp;cuando somos el testigo que sobrevive para contar la historia de cómo&nbsp;perdimos la presencia tan íntima y cercana de una hermana o una hija? La protagonista de esta novela hurga en su pasado y memoria, pero también&nbsp;en la de esos otros que presenciaron cómo su hermana dejó de ser su hermana,&nbsp;para poder reconstruir su propia identidad a través de una apropiación&nbsp;escritural y especular de los rastros que, como migas, Aisha va dejando tras&nbsp;de sí en su continua huida. "Hablar de ella es abrir una herida",&nbsp;escribe Aguilar Zéleny en esta poderosa y entrañable novela híbrida que&nbsp;tiende direcciones de sentido hacia lo autobiográfico y la crónica,&nbsp;ensamblada a partir de conversaciones, cartas, diálogos, correos, apuntes,&nbsp;entrevistas y recortes bibliográficos que nos confrontan con la idea del yo y&nbsp;el amor como abismos.» Sara Uribe ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "All writing is a search, but only some are actual discoveries. Like this one from The Book of Aisha, by Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny, endowed with beauty, intelligence, and profound humanity." Gabriela Cabezon Camara &nbsp;&nbsp; "The Book of Aisha documents the daily and miniscule catastrophes that long-lasting absences cause within a family when one of its own becomes a stranger. Who do we become when we are the surviving witness of how we lost the close and intimate presence of a sister or daughter? &nbsp; The protagonist delves into her past and her memory, but also into that of those who witnessed how her sister ceased to be her sister, in order to reconstruct her own identity through a scriptural and specular appropriation of the traces that, as crumbs, Aisha leaves behind in her continued flight. 'To talk about her is to open an old wound,' writes Aguilar Zéleny in this powerful and endearing hybrid novel that tends towards the autobiographical and chronicled report, assembled from conversations, letters, dialogues, emails, notes, interviews, and bibliographic clippings that confront us with the idea of &#8203;&#8203;the self and love as abysses." --Sarah Uribe

El libro de Aisha / The Book of Aisha (MAPA DE LAS LENGUAS) (Spanish Edition)

Literatura Random House

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