# Trash - Paperback

by **Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny** (Author), **J. D. Pluecker** (Translator)

**_Trash_ interweaves the voices of three women with lived connections to the municipal garbage dump of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.**

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 joy in the midst of a perilous sociopolitical context? What does it mean to live a life in a time of austerity and extreme violence? _Trash_ is a critical intervention in Mexican literature.

### Author Biography

**Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny** received her MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Texas at El Paso. She is the author of four short-story books and a young adult novel series. Her novel _Todo Eso Es Yo_ won the National Book Award in Tamaulipas, México in 2015.

**JD Pluecker** has translated numerous books from the Spanish, including _Gore Capitalism_ (Semiotext(e), 2018), _Antígona González_ (Les Figues Press, 2016), and _Writing with Caca_ by Luis Felipe Fabre (Green Lantern Press, 2021). Their book of poetry and image, _Ford Over_, was released in 2016 from Noemi Press. JD is a recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writing Grant and has exhibited work at Blaffer Art Museum, the Hammer Museum, Project Row Houses, and more.

**Number of Pages:** 168

**Dimensions:** 0.8 x 7.9 x 4.9 IN

**Publication Date:** March 21, 2023

## Details

- **Price:** 17.95 USD
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- **Type:** Books
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