Autobiography of Cotton

Author: Rivera Garza, Cristina

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 5 May 2026 by And Other Stories in the United Kingdom.

Deeply personal and politically acute, in Autobiography of Cotton, Rivera Garza crafts a new kind of border novel that tells how a brittle land radically altered her grandparents’ lives and the territories they helped develop. In this intimate fictionalisation, Rivera Garza reveals a rich social history of agricultural colonisation, labour activism, environmental degradation and cross-border migration.