I first encountered Ursula Villarreal-Moura’s work when I read her story “Mucci” in the Bennington Review. This piece exemplifies what Villarreal-Moura does so well in her new story collection: painting the nuanced and sometimes ambivalent relationships between loved ones. The way there are secret languages and rituals among them.
Set in rural Kansas, "New to Liberty" follows three autonomous women trying to embrace their inner selves under the circumstances they've been given during snapshots in time, 1966, 1947 and 1933