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005    20230725093225.0
008    230119t20232023nyu    e      000 1 eng d
020    9781642861228 |q(paperback)
020    1642861227 |q(paperback)
035    (Sirsi) 40031756808
035    40031756808
035    (OCoLC)1362528986
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041 1  eng |hspa
050  4 PQ8180.427.U53 |bA6413 2023
082 04 863/.7 |223
100 1  Quintana, Pilar, |d1972- |eauthor. |=^A1465043
240 10 Abismos. |lEnglish |=^A1465043
245 10 Abyss / |cPilar Quintana ; translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman.
264  1 New York : |bWorld Editions, |c2023.
264  4  |c©2023
300    219 pages ; |c21 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
500    First published as Los abismos in Spain.
520    "Claudia seeks the attention of her melancholic mother, also named Claudia, who occupies her days reading gossip magazines and tending to the family's teeming collection of house plants in their Cali, Colombia, apartment. The mother is particularly obsessed with the deaths of famous women such as actor Natalie Wood, who died in 1981, and tells the narrator they took their own lives to escape from domineering men. The older Claudia married the narrator's father, Jorge, at 19 when he was 42, and though he's away working most of the time, the younger Claudia reveres him. The older Claudia then begins a secret love affair with her 30-year-old brother in law, which is exposed during a family trip to a seashore city, and Jorge threatens to kick Claudia out. Overhearing this, the narrator changes her view of Jorge, likening him to a monster. Later, the older Claudia's best friend, Gloria dies by suicide, and Claudia's comments on Gloria, who suffered from depression, make the narrator worried about her mother's safety and well-being. Visceral images propel the story ("Mama laughed so wide, you could see the roof of her mouth, hollow and grooved like an underfed torso"), as the narrator grows increasingly concerned about what's going to happen next."-- |cProvided by publisher.
546    In English, translated from Spanish.
650  0 Families |vFiction. |=^A533241
650  0 Mothers and daughters |vFiction. |=^A414870
650  0 Adultery |vFiction. |=^A444932
650  0 Depressed persons |vFiction. |=^A321856
655  7 Domestic fiction. |2lcgft
655  7 Novels. |2lcgft
700 1  Dillman, Lisa |etranslator. |=^A1299445
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