Medea Sang Me a Corrido

A punk revival of Medea as a meddling anti-angel of birth and death, from the International Booker Prize-nominated author of Reservoir Bitches. In Aztlán, Paulina, Perla, Antonia, Reina, and Jordán are striving to survive--hustling on the edge of a cartel-run economy, nursing dreams and wounds in a world that eats its own. Hovering over their trials is a deity with goth flair, dressed in black and crowned with braids: Medea, a mythic mother, ancient but never too old to be petty, riding her snake-drawn chariot to redemption. From helping a trophy girlfriend with her abortion, to accompanying a mother in search of her lost son in the desert, to embracing tragic victims of the state and its proxy wars, Medea fights for justice for her chosen mortals, guiding them through the corrupt, violent web spun by the cartel, the government, and the military. Dahlia de la Cerda‘s magnetic prose pierces the heart and links intersecting struggles to the missions of Medea, equal parts midwife and gravedigger, a femme fatale legend in a fatalistic world.