From “The Taiga Syndrome”

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Cristina Rivera Garza

Cristina Rivera Garza is a distinguished professor of Hispanic Studies and Creative Writing at the University of Houston. The only author to be awarded the International Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize twice—in 2001 for her novel Nadie me verá llorar (No One Will See Me Cry, 2003), and in 2009 for her novel La muerte me da—her most recent book is La imaginación pública (2015). The opening chapters of her novel El mal de la taiga (2012) are presented in the following excerpt.