Description: Lyrical and swashbuckling, tender and surreal, Gabriela Cabezón Camara's new novel finds glimmers of hope for the future in the brutal history of colonial Latin America
Brief description: Robin Myers is a Mexico City-based poet and translator. A 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow, she has been longlisted twice for the National Translation Award in poetry and won the 2019 Poems in Translation Contest (Words Without Borders / Academy of American Poets). Her work has appeared in Granta, The Baffler, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.
Review Quotes: Cámara makes a beautiful, at times hilarious narrative that doesn't shy away from its anti-capitalist critique, while still putting forward a neo-baroque style and masterful lyricism.--Mary LUna "Rain Taxi"