Where do the paths of Nora García’s life go in these stories? Most of the time, they go places she was not expecting to go to and toward things she was not searching for. Adventures and misadventures, comedy and art, opera and tango, traveling and reading, social criticism and the detailed observations of clothes, trends, and the modus vivendi of different societies, including the permanent pressure of the “social and institutional mandates” and the always so punished female condition.

Supported by the materiality of the human body, Margo Glantz invites us to explore her literary paths: domestic adventures, mandatory visits —medical visits,— and more pleasant visits — social meetings, museum exhibitions, and restaurants. The details and the fragments, the memory and the repetition, the obsession and the broad reading, varied and erudite, articulated with humor, sensitivity, and mastery. Margo Glatz writes prose that combines essay and narrative, autobiography and experimental catalog, history, and philosophy. A book full of culture, poetry, and micro-stories.