The I Index

When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold

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66

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

35/100

Critics

96/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Alia Trabucco Zerán, Sophie Hughes

Publisher:

Coffee House Press

Date:

April 5, 2022

Retold analyzes four homicides carried out by Chilean women over the course of the twentieth century.

What The Reviewers Say

Suhasini Patni,
Asymptote
... what is true, in a lawful sense, is curled and uncurled in this text, making it one of the more incisive intersectional feminist analyses of myth and murder.
Lily Meyer,
NPR
Trabucco Zerán, well translated by Sophie Hughes, is a moving, imaginative writer.
Isabella Pilotta Gois,
The Latino Book Review
A thoughtful interdisciplinary study on the relationship between criminal law, gender, and femininity.
Megan Bradbury,
The Times Literary Supplement (UK)
... [a] thrilling fusion of true crime and investigative memoir.