The Sad Passions
- Paperback
344 pages
- Release Date
17 May 2013
Summary
The lyrical story of a Mexican family torn apart by the fragility and madness of one of its members.Told by six women in one family, Veronica Gonzalez Pena’s The Sad Passions captures the alertness, beauty, and terror of childhood lived in proximity to madness. Set against the backdrop of a colonial past, spanning three generations, and shuttling from Mexico City to Oaxaca to the North Fork of Long Island to Veracruz, The Sad Passions is the lyrical story of a middle-class Mexican family torn…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781584351207 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1584351209 |
| Author: | Veronica Gonzalez Pena |
| Publisher: | Autonomedia |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 344 |
| Release Date: | 17 May 2013 |
| Weight: | 517g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Native Agents |
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For all of the effects of erasure and absence on The Sad Passions, the narration is incredibly present, crawling on the page in spidery, sprawling observations, setting up pools and lairs that lure a reader in.
—Margaret Wappler, Los Angeles TimesThe Sad Passions, Veronica Gonzalez Peña’s extraordinary novel of desire, loss, and matrilineal history, explodes the teenage pregnancy script through its unflinching plumbing of the bond between mother and daughter. The Sad Passions begins with a story we think we know, and then shows us how little any of us understand: about our ancestors, our parents, ourselves.
—Lisa Locascio, The Los Angeles Review of BooksAn exquisite and moving panorama of late 20th century life in Mexico and the US.
—George Porcari, California Literary ReviewI like the way the [cover] image moves with this novel, the way the absence becomes the presence. Veronica Gonzalez Peña does not write absence as a form of lack, her absence froths and grows agitated, it fills up the page with pulsing need.
—Saehee Cho, HTML GiantAbout The Author
Veronica Gonzalez Pena
Veronica Gonzalez Pena is the author of twin time- or, how death befell me, which won the Premio Aztlan Literary Prize in 2007. She is also the founder of rockypoint Press, which produces a series of artist-writer collaborations.
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