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From “Tina Reyes,” which appears in The Houseguest and Other Stories. The book will be published next month by New Directions. Dávila was born in Mexico in 1928 and is renowned for her short stories, collected in Tiempo destrozado, Música concreta, and Árboles petrificados. Translated from the Spanish by Matthew Gleeson and Audrey Harris.

Tina Reyes said goodbye to the other girls from work and boarded the bus that would drop her near Rosa’s house. “I hope Rosa’s all right”: last week she’d looked very…

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