{"product_id":"meaty-pleasures-dorothy-potter-snyder-9781736565032","title":"Meaty Pleasures","description":"In 2014, one of my students returned from Mexico with a gift for me: a collection by Mica Lav匤. Those stories -- including \u003ci\u003eLadies Bar\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003eM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.\u003cbr\u003eI hope my translations possess the grace of both the original texts and their author. I hope these stories wound you, too. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e-- Dorothy Potter Snyder (writer and translator), August 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dorothy Potter Snyder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1736565036\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781736565032\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Katakana Editores\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/14\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.29d","brand":"Dorothy Potter Snyder","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43945278079231,"sku":"9781736565032","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_d65ae4b3-77e8-4560-8639-3069510bcae8.jpg?v=1681507827","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/meaty-pleasures-dorothy-potter-snyder-9781736565032","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}