{"product_id":"medea-sang-me-a-corrido","title":"Medea Sang Me a Corrido","description":"\u003cb\u003eA punk revival of Medea as a Mexican anti-angel of birth and death, from the International Booker Prize-nominated author of \u003ci\u003eReservoir Bitches\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Northern Mexico, Paulina, Perla, Antonia, Reina, and Jordan are striving to survive the barrio - hustling on the edge of a cartel-run economy, nursing the wounds made normal in a world that eats its own. Hovering over their trials is a spirit with gothic flair, dressed in black and crowned with braids: Medea, a mythic mother of the Chihuahuan desert, ancient as the Aztecs but never too old to be petty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom aiding a trophy girlfriend's abortion, to accompanying a mother in her search for her lost child in the desert, to embracing those taken too soon in the narco's brutal proxy wars, Medea fights for justice for her chosen mortals - her divine wrath the only power that could rival the corrupt, violent web spun by the cartel, the government, and the military. Dahlia de la Cerda's magnetic prose draws readers right into the heart of that web - and links all our fates to the missions of Medea, equal parts midwife and gravedigger, a femme fatale god in a femicidal world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Once again, de la Cerda has given us a collection of stories that is of devastating impact, one whose power slowly grows with each new voice that joins the chorus until the collective coalesces into a passage that absolutely takes you out at the kneecaps. This is a book rich with lineage and allusion, yet it is never quite so powerful as when it is reckoning with the simple cataclysm of a life cut short.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Joe Murray, Readings\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Only a novel this inventive and insane could help me understand the complexities of modern Mexico and capture every horror of womanhood. Propulsive and poetic. As sick as it is sexy and as feral as it is tender. I couldn't put it down.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Melissa Lozada-Oliva, author of \u003ci\u003eCandelaria\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the most promising voices in recent Mexican literature.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eLatin American Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Dahlia de la Cerda","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43516618080317,"sku":null,"price":26.59,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9781761382161.jpg?v=1787563475","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/medea-sang-me-a-corrido","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}