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Silencio
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A Lyrically Haunting And Powerful Account Of Women Surviving Femicide And Destruction In Mexico, Using Fantasy To Relate Atrocities That Exist Beyond Language.From The AwardWinning Author Of The Highly Praised Novel, Fury, One Of PublisherS WeeklyS Best Books Of 2024 And An Indie Next Pick.Silencio Tells The Story Of gueda, A Young Woman Mourning The Death Of Her Mother. When The Townspeople Deny Her A Grave In The Local Cemetery, The MotherS Body Vanishes. gueda Knows Her Father Is Hiding It, And When She Confronts Him, He Punishes Her Defiance With Confinement.Serving Her Sentence In A House, gueda Lives Within Those Walls As If In A Second Maternal WombOne That Will Transform Her. In Chapters Alternating Between The Real And The Imaginary, She Mourns The Destroyed Futures Of Those Who Were Silenced As She Listens To Her Neighbors Stories Of LossA Child Worker; A Boy From The Tacuate Community; And Mexican Refugees In Canada. Through The Walls, She Senses The World: Birds In Dialogue, The Beauty Of The Arid Landscape, Experiences Of Love And Devastation. She Comes To Realize That In This Mountain Region That Resembles The AuthorS Hometown Of Oaxaca, Where Organized Crime Holds Sway, ManyLike HerMourn Their Dead And Search For The Disappeared.In Her Second Book To Be Translated Into English, Clyo Mendoza Transcends The Limits Of Language And Realism To Represent With Lyric Brutality The Unspeakable Violence In Towns Where Narcotrafficking Rules.
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