Description
A woman returns to the landscape of her childhood, determined to confront the fear that once held her captive and to find a way back to herself. Lost among troubled memories, she begins to “talk herself back into being,” inventing a listener who can hold what she cannot yet say. In a haunting, intimate turn, the story becomes a ghost tale told by a gentle, terrified child—one who died on the day she first menstruated—whose presence reframes coming-of-age as both rupture and revelation. With Carmen Boullosa’s lyrical, boundary-bending style, the novel explores memory, identity, and the stories we create to survive what we cannot name.
Available Editions
paperback
Deep Vellum Publishing
Published Jan 1, 2016
104 pages
ISBN: 9781941920282
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Details
First Published
2016
Language
spa
Translation
From: spa
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