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The Queens of Sarmiento Park (2019)

by Camila Sosa Villada

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Auntie Encarna's is the queerest boarding house in the world. For Camila, it is a refuge, and the raggle-taggle band of queens who gather there are like family. At night they head out to Sarmiento Park to earn money. They stand together in the cold, sharing stories and a hip flask of whiskey, waiting for a car to slow down. Until, one freezing evening, Auntie Encarna hears crying in the bushes and wades in to investigate. When she finds an abandoned baby boy, she will hear no arguments: she is bringing him home to care for him. Life for Camila and the others will never be the same again...… (more)
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Las Malas va directo a la lista de los libros que más me gustaron en 2020.
Un libro sobre vivir contra corriente y sobrevivir; sobre el amor, la maternidad, la sororidad, el feminismo, la fidelidad a una misma, el ser mujer, la dignidad y la vergüenza, la libertad y la soledad.
Un libro duro -muy, muy duro- pero escrito con el alma, franco y desgarrador a ratos, poético todo el tiempo; alegre y profundamente doloroso.
Escrito desde las vivencias de primera mano de Camila Sosa Villada, sentí vergüenza por esa mayoría (principalmente esa que cree que puede imponer su moral u ocultar la doble mora), tan cruel e inhumana con las minorías tan únicas, valientes y luminosas. Le agradezco principalmente el realismo descarnado, que nos hace querer voltear para otro lado, al tiempo que queremos saber más de su mujer pájaro, los hombres sin cabeza, la hombre loba, la prostituta de 113 años o el niño oráculo y tantos milagros más. (A ratos me recuerda a un poco a Temporada de Huracanes de Fernanda Melchor, en dónde también cuenta algunas de las atrocidades del mundo, pero logran hacerlo con elegancia, belleza y hasta con ciertos toques de magia.)
Cuando terminé el libro, quería abrazar a Camila, no porque ella lo necesitara: porque lo necesitaba yo. Deseo que la magia de sus letras logre curar algo de las múltiples heridas de cada una de las Mujeres que, con sus altísimos tacones, cruzaron estas páginas, llenándolas de colores iridiscentes y brillantes. ( )
  GabbadelaMoraP | Apr 8, 2021 |
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Auntie Encarna's is the queerest boarding house in the world. For Camila, it is a refuge, and the raggle-taggle band of queens who gather there are like family. At night they head out to Sarmiento Park to earn money. They stand together in the cold, sharing stories and a hip flask of whiskey, waiting for a car to slow down. Until, one freezing evening, Auntie Encarna hears crying in the bushes and wades in to investigate. When she finds an abandoned baby boy, she will hear no arguments: she is bringing him home to care for him. Life for Camila and the others will never be the same again...

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