A Domestication
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The actress has playwrights dying to work with her. Directors are in love with her; adoring fans mob her after performances. Renowned for being a diva, she is as spiky and demanding as she is talented. As a travesti, she is traumatised by her painful childhood as a boy, but since then she has worked hard to acquire all the trappings of conventional success: her thriving acting career; her marriage to a lawyer who loves her; and parenthood, for she and her husband have adopted a little boy whom she loves fiercely.
But when she travels with her husband and son for a weekend visit to her family in the countryside, she is confronted with the brutal force of the prejudice she has tried so hard to escape from - and a ticking time bomb threatens to explode.
A tragicomedy of domestic dysfunction written in a voice rich with raw, rebellious beauty, A Domestication is a darkly funny, gritty and moving novel about sex, class, the oppressive lure of wealth and convention - and the unquenchable desire for love.
But when she travels with her husband and son for a weekend visit to her family in the countryside, she is confronted with the brutal force of the prejudice she has tried so hard to escape from - and a ticking time bomb threatens to explode.
A tragicomedy of domestic dysfunction written in a voice rich with raw, rebellious beauty, A Domestication is a darkly funny, gritty and moving novel about sex, class, the oppressive lure of wealth and convention - and the unquenchable desire for love.
- Published: Jan 07 2027
- Pages: 240
- ISBN: 9780349019901
Press Reviews
Justin Torres, National Book Award-winning author of Blackouts
I am such a fan of the legendary Camila Sosa Villada -- her humor, her intelligence, her range. Nuanced, seductive, and profound, A Domestication points to deeper questions about the desires lying beneath our own performances of tenderness and indifference
Chris Kraus, author of The Four Spent the Day Together
Elegant, witty, cruel and delicious, A Domestication is thrilling to read - an amazing performance where the petty annoyance of everyday life competes with macho violence and female malevolence. Like all the great divas, Sosa Villada's narrator knows and feels it all.