The weird,fetid,familiar discomfort of family is front and centre in these short stories of all the ways we remain a mystery to each other.
The mysteries of kinship (families born into and families made) take disconcerting and familiar shapes in these refreshingly frank short stories. A family is haunted by a beast that splatters fruit against its walls every night,another undergoes a near-collision with a bus on the way home from the beach. Mothers are cold,fathers are absent-we know these moments in the abstract,but Adaui makes each as uncanny as our own lives: close but not yet understood.
Publisher: Charco PressISBN: 9781913867195Number of pages: 133Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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"haunting....Adaui's poetic prose elevates the poignancy of these mostly somber stories" -Publishers Weekly
"A kaleidoscopic collection that takes a sharp,dark look at family and how we survive it." -Kirkus
"A softly beguiling book that pulls the reader into its complexity and investigation of deeply vicious themes." -The Arts Desk
"Brief,incendiary tales,flaring into being." -Irish Times
"With this book Katya Adaui consolidates her position as one of the most subtle and original Peruvian writers in recent years." -El País
"Adaui belongs to a resurgence of women storytellers who have restored the pleasure of reading stories that leave us suffering from their sweet intoxication." -WMagazín
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