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Eating ashes : a novel / Brenda Navarro ; translated by Megan McDowell.
Van Pelt Library PQ7298.424.A9172 E28 2026
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Navarro Eating
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Navarro, Brenda, 1982- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Ceniza en la boca. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Grief--Fiction.
- Grief.
- Siblings--Fiction.
- Siblings.
- Brothers--Death--Fiction.
- Brothers.
- Immigrants--Spain--Fiction.
- Immigrants.
- Mexicans--Spain--Fiction.
- Mexicans.
- Women--Spain--Social conditions--Fiction.
- Women.
- Mexican fiction--21st century.
- Mexican fiction.
- Domestic fiction, Spanish--Translations into English.
- Domestic fiction, Spanish.
- Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
- Novels.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 235 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2026].
- Summary:
- "An arrestingly beautiful, award-winning novel about separation, migration, and love left behind."-- Page 2 of cover
- Alone and adrift in Barcelona, an unnamed narrator is haunted by the death of her teenage brother, Diego. Diego, the little boy she helped raise in Mexico while their mother struggled to make a living in Spain. Diego, who loved Vampire Weekend and dreamed of becoming a pilot. Diego, who hated Madrid as much as she did. Now, his ashes in hand, she must return to Mexico. Plagued by memories, she recounts their young lives leading up to tragedy in blistering detail: the acute loneliness that accompanied their emigration; the siblings' first separation, when she left for Barcelona to make her own way in the world; her activism against labor abuses, which is threatened by her tumultuous relationship with an entitled lover; and the final, heavyhearted confrontation with her brother. Caught between rage and heartbreak over the loss of Diego, she pieces together a story of alienation, but also of surprising courage and hope.
- Notes:
- "First published in Mexico in 2021 by Editorial Sexto Piso, S.A. DE C.V as Ceniza en la boca"--Title page verso
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 132409608X
- 9781324096085
- OCLC:
- 1519449029
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