I’ll be chairing this launch for an excellent Charco Press title, speaking to both writer and translator!

From the website:
”We are truly honoured to be welcoming Bolivian author Giovanna Rivero, as well as her translator Isabel Adey, in the Bookshop for a brilliant night celebrating the English publication of Fresh Dirt from the Grave. With shipwrecks, dive bars, and exploring themes of possession, and science, Giovanna's collection of short stories plants itself at the muddy intersection of gothic horror and science fiction. Suffice to say that Giovanna's world is one where contemporary horrors and ancient terrors meet.

In Fresh Dirt from the Grave, a collision of harshness and tenderness animates Giovanna Rivero's stories, where no degree of darkness (buried bodies, lost children, wild paroxysms of violence) can take away from the gentleness she shows all violated creatures. A mad aunt haunts her family, two Bolivian children are left on the outskirts of a Metis reservation outside Winnipeg, a widow teaches origami in a women's prison. Murders, housefires, and poisonings abound, but so does the persistent bravery of people trying to forge ahead in the face of the world. They are offered cruelty, often, indifference at best, and yet they keep going.

Rivero has reworked the boundaries of the gothic to engage with pre-Columbian ritual, folk tales, sci-fi and eroticism, and found in the wound their humanity and the possibility of hope. We hope you can join us for what promises to be a truly fantastic event with Giovanna, Isabel, and Charco Press, one of our booksellers' favourite local and independent publisher.”

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