Meaty Pleasures (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781736565032)

In 2014, one of my students returned from Mexico with a gift for me: a collection by Mica Lav匤. Those stories -- including Ladies Bar, which is in this book - explored the fraught terrain of love, sex, desire, obsession, and fantasy and they were the most visceral and unabashedly physical tales by a Hispanic woman I had ever read. They wounded me, wonderfully. But Monica's books were hard to find in the U.S., and none of them had been translated into English.
Mica Lav匤 has published ten novels, twelve collections, three works of YA fiction, and five nonfiction books; she has won some of Mexico's most important literary honors, including the Elena Poniatowska Ibero-american Novel Prize (2010). The present collection introduces her to an English-language readership. I have selected stories originally published in several different collections, those that left the deepest mark on me for their unflinching gaze at human desire and the body. Mica's characters tread the slender, permeable borders between parent and child, stranger and lover, have and have-not, male and female. We peer into their wounds and see reflected there our own pain and passion. These stories are not for the faint of heart -- but they are for those with heart.
I hope my translations possess the grace of both the original texts and their author. I hope these stories wound you, too.

-- Dorothy Potter Snyder (writer and translator), August 2021

Author: Dorothy Potter Snyder
ISBN-10: 1736565036
ISBN-13: 9781736565032
Publisher: Katakana Editores
Language: English
Published: 09/14/2021
Pages: 122
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.29d