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A fiercely poetic, tenderly observed portrait of young womens travels on the fringes of Mexico and the United States, bythe Pulitzer-Prize winning author ofLilianas Invincible Summer

In this new collection of genre-defying stories by Cristina Rivera Garza, a woman visits what she thinks could be her old lover’s hometown after being abandoned by her, years earlier. Two herons hitchhike across Mexico. A group of workers build a new home, only to see it destroyed by the state.

With little baggage and much bravado, the characters inTerrestrialhitchhike, migrate, take trains, wander or, at times, fly, to survive the mandates of patriarchy and capitalism.On dusty roads or by a lake turned suddenly ominous, they remain in close contact with the earth’s surface, sensing its wild promise and capacity for violence, its degradation and enduring beauty.

As she did in her Pulitzer Prize winning memoirLilianas Invincible Summer, Rivera Garza forges new forms, experimenting with structure and time as she tails the intrepid travelers with shimmering and honest prose. Combining journalism, novelistic writing, and themes of female freedom, gore capitalism, and class struggle,Terrestrialis a meditation on travel and distance, and our ties to the earth we tread on.

Cristina Rivera Garzais the award-winning author ofDeath Takes Me, The Taiga Syndrome,andThe Iliac Crest, among many other books. Her memoir,Lilianas Invincible Summer, won the Pulitzer Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Prize, Rivera Garza is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Chair and director of the PhD program in creative writing in Spanish at the University of Houston.

Christina MacSweeneyis an award-winning literary translator. She has translated works by such authors as Valeria Luiselli, Daniel Saldaa Pars, Julin Herbert, and Jazmina Barrera. She has also contributed to various anthologies of Latin American literature.

• Publisher: Hogarth
• Publish Date: September 15, 2026
• Pages: 160
• Language: English
• Type: Hardcover
• EAN/UPC: 9780593980088
• Dimensions: 8.3 X 5.5 X 0.4 inches | 0.65 pounds
• BISAC Categories: History, Travel, Politics