Reservoir Bitches: Stories - Dahlia de la Cerda

Category: Anthology, General Fiction
Language: English
Keywords: Feminism Mexico Short Story Collection Spanish Literature

Written by Dahlia de la Cerda
Read by Angela Juarez
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
Release date: 06-23-26

LONGLISTED for the 2025 International Booker Prize

A debut collection of gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny stories about Mexican women who fight, skirt, cheat, cry, kill, and lie their way to survival.

“Life’s a bitch. That’s why you gotta rattle her cage, even if she’s foaming at the mouth.” In the linked stories of Reservoir Bitches, thirteen Mexican women prod the bitch that is Life and become her. From the all-powerful daughter of a cartel boss to the victim of transfemicide, from a houseful of spinster seamstresses to a socialite who supports her politician husband by faking Indigenous roots, these women spit on their own reduction and invent new ways to endure, telling their own stories in bold, unapologetic voices. At once a work of black humor and social critique, Reservoir Bitches is a raucous debut from one of Mexico’s most thrilling new writers.

Contains mature themes.