A generative, genre-bending collection of nineteen linked stories by legendary Chicana writer, theorist, and activist Gloria E. Anzaldúa.
Gloria E. Anzaldúa is best known for Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987), a groundbreaking hybrid of poetry and prose that put her at the forefront of many recent theoretical developments, from queer theory to border theory and beyond. But Anzaldúa was also a prolific fiction writer, working out many of her most adventurous, inspired ideas about gender, sexuality, and the very nature of existence in creative pieces she revised over years and years. In Prieta Is Dreaming, a speculative novel-in-stories following the precocious Prieta from childhood to adulthood, Anzaldúa generously imbues her protagonist with supernatural powers. In nineteen stories, twelve of which have never before been published, Prieta embodies fluidity, traversing linear time, shapeshifting, and changing how we think about not just Anzaldúa's writing but also ourselves, our worlds, and reality itself.
