A rich and moving epistolary
memoir about transgender childhood, sexual trauma, motherhood, and a
young queer life in 1970s Argentina
Winner
of the ALA Stonewall Book Award. As heard on NPR's Latino USA
In
these hilarious and heartbreaking letters, Cecilia Gentili reinvents
the trans memoir, putting the confession squarely between the writer
and her enemies, paramours and friends. Writing to childhood figures
such as her rapist's daughter, her father's mistress, her best
friend, and her mother, Gentili probes deeply into the bitter
cruelty, buried secrets, and delicious gossip of a small town. Is she
here for revenge, or forgiveness? Both! And more! A story of sex,
theft, murder, motherhood, and outrageous fashion choices, Faltas
is a beautiful, messy meditation on what it takes to heal, and even
grow.
