# Variations on the Body

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- Authors: [María Ospina](https://www.bookquiver.com/maria-ospina)
- Language: en_US

## Description

- These stories confront feminist and anti-imperial subjects such as female friendship and desire, women's relationships to their bodies and those of others, political insurgency, heteronormativity, state violence, and the strictures of economic and social class.- Author teaches at Wesleyan and lives in CT; available for interviews and book events- Stories are linked together by various characters, making a compelling. throughline/narrative arc that should broaden the audience beyond diehard short story readers.- We're excited to bring a new Colombian author into English and onto our growing and acclaimed list of Latin American translations.- Translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary, who also translated Roque Larraquy's Comemadre, longlisted for the National Book Award in Translated Literature.- For readers of Lesley Arimah, Carmen Boullosa, Idra Novey, and Joy Williams.

## Editions

### Variations on the Body

- Publisher: Coffee House Press
- ISBN: 978-15-6689-610-8
- Language: en_US