Autobiography of Cotton - Cristina Rivera Garza, at Heffers Bookshop

Deeply personal and politically acute, in Autobiography of Cotton, Rivera Garza crafts a new kind of border novel that tells how a brittle land radically altered her grandparents’ lives and the territories they helped develop. In this intimate fictionalisation, Rivera Garza reveals a rich social history of agricultural colonisation, labour activism, environmental degradation and cross-border migration.

Cristina Rivera Garza is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author ofLiliana’s Invincible Summer. A MacArthur Fellow, she is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Chair and founder of the University of Houston’s PhD in Creative Writing in Spanish. With And Other Stories she has published The Iliac Crest (2018) andThe Taiga Syndrome (2019).

Carlos Fonseca (San José, Costa Rica, 1987) is a Costa Rican–Puerto Rican writer. He was selected by the Hay Festival as part of the Bogotá 39 group and by Granta magazine as one of the twenty-five best young Spanish-language writers. He is the author of the novels Coronel Lágrimas, Museo animal, and Austral. His work has been translated into more than ten languages. He has twice won the Costa Rican National Literature Prize, and in 2024 he was awarded the Anna Seghers Prize. He is a fellow at Trinity College, and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages at the University of Cambridge.

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