Along with their short stories and novel segments, the collection includes an interview with each author and a bibliography of her work. Since its original publication in Spanish, the collection has been expanded and includes a new introduction that deals with Argentinean history of the past decades as well as current literary production there, with special emphasis on the position of women writers. Eliana C. Hermann is associate professor of Spanish at Sweet Briar College in Virginia. These female voices offer another viewpoint on that upheaval. . . .
Many stories involve real of symbolic immigration and emigration in the hope of finding identity.