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A rich and moving epistolary memoir about transgender childhood, sexual trauma, motherhood, and a young queer life in 1970s Argentina In these hilarious and heartbreaking letters, Cecilia Gentili reinvents the trans memoir, putting the confession squarely between the writer and her enemies, paramours and friends. Writing to childhood figures such as her rapist's daughter, her father's mistress, her best friend, and her mother, Gentili probes deeply into the bitter cruelty, buried secrets, and delicious gossip of a small town. Is she here for revenge, or forgiveness? Both! And more! A story of sex, theft, murder, motherhood, and outrageous fashion choices, Faltas is a beautiful, messy meditation on what it takes to heal, and even grow. One of the best memoirs I've ever read.-- Autostraddle A little earthquake of a book.-- Xtra I don't know if I've ever read anything so emotionally honest and morally rigorous. [Gentili] manages radical empathy without compromising her own emotional integrity . . . It's funny and clear and vivid and painful and also so complex . . . Fuck all the college reading lists for Ethics 101. Just assign FALTAS. It's funnier than Kant, and more realistic.-- them A painstaking, personal and power-filled manifesto for survivors and trans women and anyone dreaming and yearning on the margins.--Janet Mock, author of Redefining Realness A brilliant writer whose Faltas (which is Spanish for errors) are infallible reports from the front lines of trans literature