Diane Richards

Mar 28, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Sarah Perry |Claire Messud |Diane Richards |Julia Phillips

Marcela Fuentes. Viking, $29 (384p) ISBN 978-0-593-65578-8Fuentes debuts with the astonishing story of two malas, or women who challenge traditional Mexican gender norms. The year is 1951 and Pilar Aguirre, who is eight months pregnant with her second child, has recently joined her husband, Jose Alfredo, in the Texas border town of Barrio Caimanes, where he works as a cowboy. While Pilar is visiting her friend Romi Muñoz, a mysterious older woman shows up and claims to be Jose’s first wife.