Riya

On a dark and stormy night, two elusive women arrive at the narrator’s house and go on to aggressively question this unnamed narrator’s identity. The two women don’t know each other but proceed to become exceedingly close, even making their own language. They terrorize the narrator by claiming to know his greatest secret, that he is a woman. Who then tries to prove his masculinity to himself and the others, repeatedly, in order to not lose his identity, eventually ending up in the dreaded sanitorium. This book is about breaking binaries, the strains of language, gender performativity, fluidity of all types in life. The book is confusing to read if you don't stay engaged. But so worth it, to deconstruct it. I want to read the short story collection by Amparo Davila next