Trash

By Sylvia Aguilar-ZélenyTranslated by J.D. Pluecker Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Transgender Fiction Trash interweaves the voices of three women with lived connections to the municipal garbage dump of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.  Publication Date: March 21, 2023 Paperback: 9781646052202 eBook: 9781646052462 Description Aguilar Zéleny's Trash shows the complexities of survival and joy, love and violence for three women: a teenager abandoned by her guardian at the dump, a scientist doing research on the residents of the dump, and a transwoman living nearby who is the matriarch of a group of sex workers.  Each one of the characters navigates family, abandonment, power, jealousy, greed, and multiple taboos around sexuality and gender violence. Their stories are linked by geography and by ideas of waste and abandonment.  As Aguilar Zéleny explores these territories in her book, she asks crucial questions: who is seen as disposable and why? How do women find their own means of survival and