Death Takes Me A Novel

Cristina Rivera Garza, Victoria Villarreal, Robin Myers, Sarah Booker, Tony Chiroldes, Lee Osorio, Ines del Castillo, Fabiola Stevenson, Carlotta Brentan, Mark Sanderlin

eAudio - 2025

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Liliana's Invincible Summer, a dreamlike, genre-defying novel about a professor and detective seeking justice in a world suffused with gendered violence.“Deeply rewarding . . . a dreamscape with a powerful undertow . . . [a] harrowing and labyrinthine masterpiece.”—Katie Kitamura, The New York Times (Editors’ Choice)A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND ESQUIRE BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA city is always a cemetery.A professor named Cristina Rivera Garza stumbles upon the corpse of a mutilated man in a dark alley and reports it to the police. When shown a crime scene photo, she finds a stark warning written in tiny print with coral nail polish on the brick wall beside the body: “Beware of me, my... love / beware of the silent woman in the desert.”The professor becomes the first informant on the case, which is led by a detective newly... more