Leila Guerriero (b. 1967, Argentina) is a journalist and editor. Her work regularly appears in top Spanish and Latin American publications. She has received numerous prizes and is the author of over a dozen books, including A Simple Story (New Directions, 2017). Her writing has been translated into many languages.
What Is Lost
Can you picture the Argentine pampa? Flat fields, eucalyptus trees, a seemingly inoffensive landscape where a gray sunset might use your boiling blood to paint a path st…