An intense and unforgettable autobiographical tale, with the references and keys to the writing of Camila Sosa, the new Latin American literary whirlwind.
With rage and poetry, this is the raw account of Camila Sosa Villada’s own life, her origins, her painful childhood ― a clandestine woman’s body whipped by her father’s alcoholic fury ― her experience as a transvestite who knows prostitution, but also success in the theatre, and from this, the practice of writing, which can only be radical, intense, in search of an impossible repair:
«I write so that a story is known. The story of my transvestism, of my family, of my sadness in childhood, of all that premature sadness that was my family, my father’s alcoholism, my mother’s lacks. The moves that separated me forever from friends, from the atmosphere of my rooms, from the habit of the courtyards, from the safety of a hiding place. I write to be able to say the images that filled my childhood. Also to tell the struggle of my family against poverty, a fight that devastated us and made us sick with grudges and lovelessness and indifference, everyone against everyone.»
About the author
Camila Sosa Villada (Córdoba, Argentina, 1982) studied Social Communication and Theatre at the National University of Córdoba. In 2009 she premiered her first show, Carnes tolendas, retrato escénico de un travesti. She is the author of the poems La novia de Sandro (2015), the stories Soy una tonta por quererte (2022), and the novels Las malas (2020) and Tesis sobre una domesticación (2024).
