Works by
Myriam Gurba
(Writer)

Books

• Dahlia Season: Stories and a Novella (2007) -- Nominated 2007 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction
  Chicana. Goth. Dykling. Desiree Garcia knows she's weird and a weirdo magnet. To extinguish her strangeness, her parents ship her to Saint Michael's Catholic High School, then to Mexico, but neurology can't be snuffed out so easily: Screwy brain chemistry holds the key to Desiree's madness. As fellow crazies sense a kinship with her, Desiree attracts a coterie of both wanted and unwanted admirers, including a pair of racist deathrock sisters, a pretty Hispanic girl who did time in California's most infamous mental asylum, and a transnational stalker with a pronounced limp.
  
  As high school graduation nears, Desiree's weirdness turns from charming to alarming. Plagued by increasingly bizarre thoughts and urges, Desiree convinces herself she's schizophrenic, despite assurance otherwise. In college, she finds Rae, an ex-carnie trannyboi, who becomes the June Carter to her Johnny Cash. With Rae's help, Desiree answers the riddle of her insanity and names her disease.
  
  Combining the spark of Michelle Tea, the comic angst of Augusten Burroughs, and the warmth of Sandra Cisneros, Mexican American author Myriam Gurba has created a territory all her own. Dahlia Season not only contains the title novella, but also several of Gurba's acclaimed stories.

See also:

• The Best American Erotica (Date?)

• Tough Girls: Down and Dirty Dyke (2001), Lori Selke, ed.

• Bottoms Up: Writing About Sex (2004), Diana Cage, ed.

• Secrets and Confidences: The Complicated Truth About Women's Friendships (2004), Karen Eng, ed.