I’m a Fool to Want You: Stories

In the 1990s, a woman makes a living as a rental girlfriend for gay men. In a Harlem den, a travesti gets to know none other than Billie Holiday. A group of rugby players haggle over the price of a night of sex, & in return they get what they deserve. Nuns, grandmothers, children, & dogs are never what they seem...

These 9 stories are inhabited by extravagant & profoundly human characters who face an ominous reality in ways as strange as themselves. I’m a Fool to Want You confirms that Camila Sosa Villada is one of the most powerful & original voices in contemporary literature. With her daring imagination, she can speak the language of a victim of the Mexican Inquisition, or create a dystopian universe where travestis take their revenge. With her unique style, Sosa Villada blends everyday life & magic, honoring the oral tradition with unparalleled fluency.

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Camila Sosa Villada was born in 1982 in La Falda (Córdoba, Argentina). She is a writer, actress, & singer, & previously earned a living as a sex worker, street vendor, & hourly maid. She holds degrees in communication & theater from the National University of Córdoba. Her play Carnes tolendas, retrato escénico de un travesti was selected for the 2010 National Theater Festival held in La Plata. Her first novel, Bad Girls, won the Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz & the Grand Prix de l’Héroïne Madame Figaro & has been translated into more than twenty languages.

Kit Maude is a translator based in Buenos Aires. He has translated dozens of classic & contemporary Latin American writers such as Armonía Somers, Jorge Luis Borges, Lolita Copacabana, & Ariel Magnus for a wide array of publications.