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The exhilarating English-language debut from celebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Ponce, Blood Red centers the female body in a radical exploration of desire, choice, and consequences.In a torrent of stream-of-consciousness fragments, the unnamed narrator of Blood Red recounts the aftermath of her failed marriage in explicit, sensual detail. She falls in and out of love, parties with her friends, skates around the city at night, does a lot of drugs, and gives in to her impulses. Her internal monologue is punctuated by bouts of trypophobia, an obsessive cataloging of holes that empty, fill, widen, and threaten to swallow her entirely. Blood courses through her every encounter from periods, fights, accidents, wounds, sex, streaming to and from her holey fixation. Blood is a vibrant reminder of her physicality, a manifestation of her interiority, a link to memories and sensations—until its abrupt absence changes everything. Provocative and raw, Blood Red is a fierce portrayal of a woman navigating the gray—or red—zones of her uncertainties and paradoxical urges. A subversive grappling with what it means to wrest power over one’s body, revels in the narrator’s autonomy to make choices and face the outcomes, no matter the scale.

The exhilarating English-language debut from celebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Ponce, Blood Red centers the female body in a radical exploration of desire, choice, and consequences.

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In a torrent of stream-of-consciousness fragments, the unnamed narrator of Blood Red recounts the aftermath of her failed marriage in explicit, sensual detail. She falls in and out of love, parties with her friends, skates around the city at night, does a lot of drugs, and gives in to her impulses. Her internal monologue is punctuated by bouts of trypophobia, an obsessive cataloging of holes that empty, fill, widen, and threaten to swallow her entirely. Blood courses through her every encounter from periods, fights, accidents, wounds, sex, streaming to and from her holey fixation. Blood is a vibrant reminder of her physicality, a manifestation of her interiority, a link to memories and sensations—until its abrupt absence changes everything. 

Provocative and raw, Blood Red is a fierce portrayal of a woman navigating the gray—or red—zones of her uncertainties and paradoxical urges. A subversive grappling with what it means to wrest power over one’s body, revels in the narrator’s autonomy to make choices and face the outcomes, no matter the scale.

In a torrent of stream-of-consciousness fragments, the unnamed narrator of Blood Red recounts the aftermath of her failed marriage in explicit, sensual detail. She falls in and out of love, parties with her friends, skates around the city at night, does a lot of drugs, and gives in to her impulses. Her internal monologue is punctuated by bouts of trypophobia, an obsessive cataloguing of holes that empty, fill, widen, and threaten to swallow her entirely.Blood courses through her every encounter from periods, fights, accidents, wounds, sex, streaming to and from her fixation with holes. Blood is a vibrant reminder of her physicality, a manifestation of her interiority, a link to memories and sensations-until its abrupt absence changes everything. Provocative and raw, Blood Red is a fierce portrayal of a woman navigating the grey-or red-zones of her uncertainties and paradoxical urges. A subversive grappling with what it means to wrest power over one's body, Blood Red revels in the narrator's autonomy to make choices and face the outcomes, no matter the scale.

En un entorno de naturaleza agreste y de relaciones salvajes, la protagonista de Sanguínea entra y sale de cavernas y de cuerpos, de espacios fantasmales habitados o deshabitados, de vínculos atravesados por la pérdida, la negación del futuro y la desesperanza.Sanguínea es el registro de su flujo de conciencia y de una crisis íntima: la historia de una mujer que se desliza sobre unos patines por caminos abruptos y trata de enfrentar una deriva amorosa, una inesperada e imposible maternidad y el más doloroso de los desprendimientos. Pero Sanguínea es también una novela de resistencia. De resistencia del cuerpo y contra el cuerpo. Una novela de revelaciones turbadoras. Una novela que grita.

La piel es un habitante de ciudad es como la piel de un animal que no sabe en qué momento puede pasar de depredador a presa, y viceversa.  De ahí nace Piel de Lobo, de nuestra relación salvaje con las ciudades por las que vamos dejando nuestros sueños, gemidos, palabras, relatos.

Esta antología reúne cuentos de diez narradoras ecuatorianas. Son únicamente diez porque se traslada a soporte escrito a las autoras del catálogo de audiocuentos de Mujeres al oído.Las autoras incluidas viven una experiencia literaria plena, han estudiado literatura o tienen formaciones afines, y son periodistas, docentes, editoras, gestoras culturales, etc.; lo cierto es que están inmersas no solo en la escritura, sino también en el quehacer cultural más amplio.