The Iliac Crest

Cristina Rivera Garza, Elena Poniatowska


Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
3.60 · 15 ratings · 200 pages · Published: 01 Jan 2002

The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza, Elena Poniatowska
On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator's house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their host's gender and identity. The increasingly frantic protagonist fails to defend his supposed masculinity and eventually finds himself in a sanatorium. A Gothic tale of destabilized male-female binaries and subverted literary tropes, this is the book's first English publication.

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