Sixteen tight, electric short stories that capture Claudia Piñeiro at her very best-the devastating, offhand brutality of being a woman in a world organized to keep her in her place. Resignation, violence, and rebellion are all always options. And Piñeiro remains unmatched in her whiplash dry wit, chronicling the demands of love and family life that shift from the personal to the political effortlessly, and in a moment.

Claudia Piñeiro is the author of Elena Knows , shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize. A best-selling Argentinian writer born in Buenos Aires in 1960, she is one of the most widely translated contemporary authors working in Spanish.

Fiona Mackintosh is a Senior Lecturer in Latin American Literature at the University of Edinburgh with research interests in contemporary Latin American fiction and poetry (particularly from Argentina), and literary translation. She has published extensively on Alejandra Pizarnik, Silvina Ocampo and Claudia Piñeiro. Her co-translation of_The Adventures of China Iron_ by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020. She recently translated Clara Obligado's_All that Grows: Nature and Writing_ (X Artists' Books, 2025).