Creep: Accusations and Confessions by Myriam Gurba

From Avid Reader Press/Simon and Schuster: "Quite simply one of the best books of the decade." --Los Angeles Review of Books * "The mother of intersectional Latinx identity." --Cosmopolitan * "Essential reading, a California classic." --Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers * "Witty, confident, and effortlessly provocative." --The Philadelphia Inquirer * "The most fearless writer in America." --Luis Alberto Urrea, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Good Night, Irene A ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and toxicity that has wormed its way into society--in our books, schools, and homes, as well as the systems that perpetuate them--from the acclaimed author of Mean, and one of our fiercest, foremost explorers of intersectional Latinx identity. A creep can be a singular figure, a villain who makes things go bump in the night. Yet creep is also what the fog does--it lurks into place to do its dirty work, muffling screams, obs