Toni Roberts

A writer navigating her mother's death while falling into a new love affair. Sara Torres's autofiction questions how we mourn and love.

What does it truly mean to be a feminist? La Lucha is more than just a recounting of suffering at the hands of misogyny. It is a pledge to fight, an act of struggle in the long and varied feminist canon that continues to flourish across the world and that is so often under attack.

Apparitions can be read as many things: a tribute to women’s sexual emancipation; a cautionary tale of the disintegration of patriarchal family structures; even a meditation on the brutality of the Catholic Church and its frenzied devotees.