The Girl Who Cried Diamonds & Other Stories

✍ Scribed by Rebecca Hirsch Garcia

• Book ID: 112686977
• Publisher: ECW Press
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: en-CA
• Weight: 536 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781770417274

✦ Synopsis

"Bridging tenderness and violence, and brimming with danger and magic,The Girl Who Cried Diamonds will leave you breathless." -- Anuja Varghese, author of Chrysalis

"In these 14 hard-edged and unapologetic stories, debut author Garcia tackles topics ranging from human trafficking and drug abuse to eating disorders and middle-age angst, and in no-frills prose, carves out bizarre and palpable realities, breathing strange life into a horde of depressed, deprived, and abused characters." -- Publishers Weekly

The boundaries between realist and fabulist, literary and speculative, are shattered in this remarkable debut collection for readers of Carmen Maria Machado, André Alexis, and Angélique Lalonde

A girl born in a small, unnamed pueblo is blessed--or cursed--with the ability to produce valuable gems from her bodily fluids. A tired wife and mother escapes the confines of her oppressive life and body...