Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You

by Julián Delgado Lopera

Description

After the drowning of her mother, Valentina searches for answers while longing to pull her father, Ignacio, out of the depression that has left him unreachable. As father and daughter confront grief, silence, and the complicated inheritance of a queerness neither can fully name, their journey moves through the depths of Colombia’s Magdalena River and the shifting currents of memory and language. Tender, searching, and richly attentive to “travesti lore,” the novel explores loss, identity, family, and the possibility of connection amid profound sorrow.

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Liveright

Published May 26, 2026

336 pages

ISBN: 9781324097204

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First Published

2026

Language

eng

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