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2023 Shirley Jackson Award Winner Best Collection InThey WillDream in the Garden,Otherwise Award-winning author, Gabriela DamiánMiravete elaborates the disconcerting experience of living as a womanin Mexicoaterritory characterized by its great contrasts, from violence andactivism to affectionate and communal resistance: flowers that arisefrom the earth to expand the cosmic consciousness of those who takeit, nuns who create artifacts so that their native languages do notperish, a memorial for the victims of femicide that the Statecontrols, but whose old guardian wants to turn into a laboratory toreturn their lost future TheyWill Dream in the Gardenshows the journey that its author has undertaken towards a moreconscious writing that, through wonder and beauty, trusts in thepossibilities that literature offers to unite, question, andtransform our being in the world.
2023 Shirley Jackson Award Winner
Best Collection
InThey WillDream in the Garden,Otherwise Award-winning author, Gabriela DamiánMiravete elaborates the disconcerting experience of living as a womanin Mexicoaterritory characterized by its great contrasts, from violence andactivism to affectionate and communal resistance: flowers that arisefrom the earth to expand the cosmic consciousness of those who takeit, nuns who create artifacts so that their native languages do notperish, a memorial for the victims of femicide that the Statecontrols, but whose old guardian wants to turn into a laboratory toreturn their lost future
TheyWill Dream in the Gardenshows the journey that its author has undertaken towards a moreconscious writing that, through wonder and beauty, trusts in thepossibilities that literature offers to unite, question, andtransform our being in the world.