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Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer

By Jamie Figueroa

Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer Contemporary literature

Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer

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A fableistic, incantatory debut novel of enormous power and grace about a sister trying to hold back her brother from the edge of the abyss for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Tommy Orange. In the tourist town of Ciudad de Tres Hermanas, in the aftermath of their mother's passing, two siblings spend a final weekend together in their childhood home. Seeing her brother, Rafa, careening toward a place of no return, Rufina devises a bet: if they can make enough money performing for privileged tourists in the plaza over the course of the weekend to afford a plane ticket out, Rafa must commit to living. If not, Rufina will make her peace with Rafa's own plan for the future, however terrifying it may be. As the siblings reckon with generational and ancestral trauma, set against the indignities of present-day prejudice, other strange hauntings begin to stalk these pages: their mother's ghost kicks her heels against the walls; Rufina's vanished child creeps into her arms at night; and above all this, watching over the siblings, a genderless, flea-bitten angel remains hell-bent on saving what can be saved.
Product details
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
2021-03-02
Publication Date:
2021-03-02
Publisher:
Catapult
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
194822688X
ISBN13:
9781948226882
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
398 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
215 cm
Thickness:
26 cm
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