Dead Girls by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott [in Shelf Awareness]
17 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, South American, Translation
*STARRED REVIEW "As a girl, I sensed that there wasn't really anywhere I was safe," Selva Almada (The Wind That Lays Waste) reveals in the chilling author's note about growing up in a provincial Argentinian town. By 8, Almada had already experienced verbal sexual abuse, accosted...