A collection of 15 short stories by female, Latin American writers, including Isabel Allende and Luisa Valenzuela. Ranging across boundaries of geography and gender, the work covers such topics as incest, race, politics, sexual needs, love, old age, and child abuse.

Edited by Nora Erro-Peralta and Caridad Silva

Contents:

The judge's wife / Isabel Allende -- The prize of freedom / Lydia Cabrera -- A passion for Donna Summer / Aída Cartagena Portalatín -- The hunt / Lygia Fagundes Telles -- Mercedes-Benz 220SL / Rosario Ferré -- The wedding / Lucía Fox -- Perfecto Luna / Elena Garro -- Under the yubayas in bloom / Angélica Gorodischer -- Homelife / Syliva Lago -- Adamastor / Nélida Piñon -- Slide in, my dark one, between the crosstie and the whistle / Elena Poniatowska -- The immigrant / Armonía Somers -- Crickets and butterflies / Gloria Stolk -- Up among the eagles / Luisa Valenzuela -- The secret world of Grandmamma Anacleta / Rima Vallbona.