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Author:
Nona Fernández, Natasha Wimmer
Publisher:
Graywolf Press
Date:
February 21, 2023
Weaving together the story of her mother's illness with story of her country and of the cosmos itself, Fernández braids astronomy and astrology, neuroscience and memory, family history and national history into this autobiographical essay.
What The Reviewers Say
Fernández’s mind roams over a stunning array of topics: her mother’s epileptic spells, which cause her to black out; the lives of stars and 'stellar memory'; Pinochet’s Caravan of Death.
The image of these two space probes roaming across the galaxy provides a glimpse of the flight path of this ambitious, often dazzling memoir.
Her dogged insistence that we focus on the individual unsettles the ease with which we lose sight of individual grief when discussing widespread violence.
The essays in Fernández’s collection cover a lot of ground.
