I’m a Fool to Want You: Stories is a collection of tales that are both gritty and unflinching, exuding tenderness and humour, blurring the fine line between fantasy and reality. These 9 stories are inhabited by extravagant and profoundly human characters who face an ominous reality in ways as strange as themselves, questioning assumptions about bodies and community, and shifting the lens through which we perceive gender, sexuality, identity and belonging.

In the 1990s, a woman makes a living as a rental girlfriend for gay men. In a Harlem den, a travesti gets to know none other than Billie Holiday. A group of rugby players haggle over the price of a night of sex, and in return they get what they deserve. Nuns, grandmothers, children, and dogs are never what they seem.

With her daring imagination, author Camila Sosa Villada can speak the language of a victim of the Mexican Inquisition, or create a dystopian universe where travestis take their revenge. With her unique style, she blends everyday life and magic, honouring the oral tradition with unparalleled fluency.

Mesmerizing, raw and brilliant, each of these tales are sure to leave readers ruminating over each story’s resonances. 

Available from Other Press

Camila Sosa Villada was born in 1982 in La Falda (Córdoba, Argentina). She is a writer, actress, and singer, and previously earned a living as a sex worker, street vendor, and hourly maid. She holds degrees in communication and theater from the National University of Córdoba. Her play Carnes tolendas, retrato escénico de un travesti was selected for the 2010 National Theater Festival held in La Plata. Her first novel, Bad Girls (Other Press, 2022), won the Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Grand Prix de l’Héroïne Madame Figaro.

Kit Maude is a translator based in Buenos Aires. He has translated dozens of classic and contemporary Latin American writers such as Armonía Somers, Jorge Luis Borges, Lolita Copacabana, and Ariel Magnus for a wide array of publications, and writes reviews and criticism for several different outlets in Spanish and English including the Times Literary Supplement, Revista Ñ, and Otra Parte. 

About the Author

Bryen Dunn is a freelance journalist based in Toronto with a focus on tourism, lifestyle, entertainment and community issues. He has written several travel articles and has an extensive portfolio of celebrity interviews with musicians, actors and other public personalities. He’s willing to take on any assignments of interest, attend parties with free booze, listen to rants, and travel the world in search of the great unknown. He’s eager to discover the new, remember the past, and look into the future.