'Can't get enough of Pose? Then Las Biuty Queens will be your new fave read. Exploring the lives of the Latin American trans community, Biuty Queens effortlessly blends heart and humour while exploring life on the wrong side of the American dream. Ivan Monalisa Ojeda sparkles as one of 2021's boldest new writers' Cosmopolitan, Best books to read this summer\n'The American dream as seen from the height of a good pair of heels' Pedro Almodóvar 
Las Biuty Queens: a group of trans Latinx immigrant friends who walk the streets of New York, smoke crystal meth, compete in beauty contests, look for clients on their impossibly high heels and fall prey to increasingly cruel immigration policies.\nDrawing from his/her own perspective as a trans performer, sex worker and undocumented immigrant, acclaimed Chilean writer Iván Monalisa Ojeda shines a light on a group of friends trying to survive the dark side of the American Dream and introduces readers to an unfamiliar, glittering and violent New York City that will draw them in and swallow them whole.\n'This is New York, full of beauty and pain - turn away at your own peril' 
Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City\n'You can't just read this book; you bathe in its grit, the resilience of its characters and, most of all, its beauty. Stunning' 
Jose Antonio Vargas, author of Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

Las Biuty Queens: With an Introduction by Pedro Almodóvar

Literature & Fiction

Ojeda, Iván Monalisa

Literary

"A dazzling collection of stories based in part on his/her life... Readers will want to consume these bonbons slowly because they are so rich and delicious." - Gay City News &nbsp; "Chilean American writer Ojeda dazzles and devastates in this rich collection about a group of trans Latinx immigrants as they try to make it in New York City." - Publishers Weekly Drawing from his/her own experience as a trans performer, sex worker, and undocumented immigrant, Iván Monalisa Ojeda chronicles the lives of Latinx queer and trans immigrants in New York City. Whether she is struggling with addiction, clashing with law enforcement, or is being subjected to personal violence, each character choses her own path of defiance, often responding to her fate with with irreverent dark humor. What emerges is the portrait of a group of friends who express unquestioning solidarity and love for each other, and of an unfamiliar, glittering and violent, New York City that will draw readers in and swallow them whole. On every page, Iván Monalisa's unique narrative talent is on display as he/she artfully transforms the language of the streets, making it his/her own -- rich with rhythm and debauchery. This bold new collection positions Ojeda as a fresh and necessary voice within the canon of world literature.

Las Biuty Queens: Stories

United States

Astra House

Una voz única en la literatura latinoamericana actual que sacude, con un mordaz talento narrativo, la escena&nbsp;trans&nbsp;de Nueva York. Con una mirada descarada y honesta, Iván Monalisa Ojeda se sumerge en el universo travesti de las calles neoyorquinas. Los cuentos de este libro narran su vida y la de sus compañeras, transexuales latinoamericanas que hacen la calle, fuman&nbsp;crystal&nbsp;meth,&nbsp;participan en concursos de belleza, buscan clientes sobre altísimos tacones y son víctimas de las nuevas políticas de inmigración de Trump. Un mundo donde la risa, la supervivencia, la muerte y el amor se entreveran en una ciudad que fascina y acorrala a las protagonistas. El talento narrativo de Iván Monalisa Ojeda, que juega con una lengua callejera llena de ritmo, libertad y frescura, lo sitúa como una voz sorprendente y particular en la literatura latinoamericana actual. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A unique voice in modern Latin American literature that shakes the New York trans scene with biting storytelling talent. &nbsp; With a shameless, honest perspective, Iván Monalisa Ojeda dives into the trans universe of New York. The stories in this book tell the story of his life and that of his friends, Latina transsexuals who walk the streets, smoke crystal meth, participate in beauty contests, look for clients on stilettos, and are victims of Trump's new immigration policies. A world where laughter, survival, death, and love intermingle in a city that fascinates and corners the protagonists. &nbsp; Iván Monalisa Ojeda's storytelling talent, which plays with street language full of rhythm, freedom, and sass, positions him as a surprising, unique voice in current Latin American literature.

Las biuty queens / The Biuty Queens (Spanish Edition)

Alfaguara

Never, Ever Ever, Coming Down, the first collection of short stories by Ivan Monalisa Ojeda, gathers the voices of transsexuals, transvestites, locas and two-spirits who roam through the nights and streets of Manhattan -its bars, clubs, neighborhoods and apartments. The English translation from Chilean and Washington Heights Spanish, by Marc Brudzinski, treasures the accuracy and fluidity of a prose which uncovers those workers who, in the dangerous spaces underneath and in between the glittering facades of New York, band together under a multicolor and plurilingual flag in order to survive.

Never, Ever Ever, Coming Down

Sangria Publishers

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Las Biuty Queens: With an Introduction by Pedro Almodóvar

Las Biuty Queens: Stories

Las biuty queens / The Biuty Queens (Spanish Edition)

Never, Ever Ever, Coming Down