The Milk of Almonds

Cristina Rivera Garza

Original title: The Iliac crest

earliest edition we have, 2002 Feminist Press, 2002 hardcover 346 pages

"On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator's house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their host's gender and identity. The increasingly frantic protagonist fails to defend his supposed masculinity and eventually finds himself in a sanatorium. A Gothic tale of destabilized male-female binaries and subverted literary tropes, this is the book's first English publication"--

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The Milk of Almonds paperback · 2002 · Feminist Press · 346 pages · 9781558614352
The Milk of Almonds hardcover · 2002 · Feminist Press · 346 pages · 9781558613928

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