Life’s a bitch. That’s why you’ve got to rattle her cage, even if she’s foaming at the mouth. A linked story collection of gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny fiction from Mexico
Dahlia de la Cerda
Dahlia de la Cerda is a Mexican writer and activist
She has a BA in Philosophy and won the Comala Young National Short Story Award for Reservoir Bitches. She is also the author of the essay ‘Feminismo sin cuarto propio’, which is included in the anthology Tsunami 2, and co-founder of the feminist organisation Morras Help Morras. Her short story ‘The Smile’ was included in the first issue of Astra Magazine. Reservoir Bitches was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025 and is currently being developed as a series by Amazon Studios and Perro Azul.
A blisteringly urgent collection of interconnected stories about contemporary Mexican women. Extremely funny but deadly serious, it absolutely bangs from the first page to the last
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