Eating ashes
Navarro, Brenda, 1982-2026
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A young man jumps five floors to his death. His sister tries to understand why. Five floors, six seconds, a body crashing to the ground. When our narrator's younger brother, Diego, takes his own life, she retreats into memories of the past, asking herself again and again: why? Revisiting their early years in Mexico, their childhood in Spain and the fragmentation and displacement that coloured their adult years, she pieces together a story of alienation and loss, but also of belonging, courage and hope. Now, she has to return to Mexico with Diego's ashes in hand. She finds a country that looks very different from the one she left behind and asks what it means to return to a home that never felt like one.
Main title:
Eating ashes / Brenda Navarro ; translated by Megan McDowell.
Author:
Navarro, Brenda, 1982-, authorMcDowell, Megan, translator
Imprint:
London : Oneworld, 2026.
Collation:
240 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Spanish.
ISBN:
9781836430193 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
863.7
Language:
EnglishSpanish
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BRN:
9049306
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