The day-to-day calamity of personhood under oppressive systems finds dazzling form in fiction that rouses the ordinary into menacing new territory. Dávila, Lispector, and Bracher lace domestic spaces with dread, and render the perils of gender, family, and polity into art: three radical visions, three intricate refusals to comply, from three pathbreaking women writers.

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