The Light of Your Body by Ire’ne Lara Silva
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A haunting, poetic short story collection blending queer identity, Indigenous spirituality, and mythical realism across the boundary of life and death.
Description
The dead are not silent here.
They remember. They linger. They speak.
In this luminous, genre-bending collection, Ire’ne Lara Silva invites readers into a world where the boundary between the living and the departed dissolves—where memory, myth, and desire move freely across time and space. Rooted in mythical realism and Indigenous cosmologies, these stories unfold in liminal spaces where grief and love are inseparable companions.
At a Día de los Muertos celebration, a mother watches her daughter honor her decades after death—and reflects on the moment her child came out. A son recalls a parent who transitioned and the painful rupture that followed. Elsewhere, Santísima Muerte runs a taco truck in Austin and falls in love. An extraterrestrial offers a haunting retelling of conquest. A woman, dazzled and disoriented by hummingbirds and lovers alike, searches for meaning in the chaos of desire.
Across these stories, bodies carry history—colonial, spiritual, intimate. They are sites of transformation, conflict, and creation. Voices of gods, ancestors, and mortals intertwine, revealing how stories live within us: shaping identity, healing wounds, and reimagining what it means to belong.
Tender and fierce, grounded and otherworldly, The Light of Your Body is a meditation on grief, queerness, spirituality, and the enduring power of storytelling to bridge what was lost with what still longs to be found.
Book Details
Author: Ire’ne Lara Silva
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: March 31, 2026
ISBN: 9798893750287
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