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The body where I was born : a novel / Guadalupe Nettel

By:

Nettel, Guadalupe, (1973 -)

Contributor(s):

Lichtenstein, J. T, (1986 -)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Seven Stories Press , 2015Description: 175 p. ; : 21 cmISBN:

9781609807511

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

LAS FIC NET

Summary: From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood - in which she was born with a birth defect into a family intent on fixing it - having somehow survived the emotional havoc she went through. And survive she did, but not unscathed. This intimate narrative echoes the voice of the narrator's younger self: a sharp, sensitive girl who is keen to life's gifts and hardships. With bare language and smart humor, both delicate and unafraid, the narrator strings a strand of touching stories together in a portrait of an unconventional childhood that crushed her, scarred her, mended her, tore her apart and ultimately made her whole.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS FIC NET (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		056884

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From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood - in which she was born with a birth defect into a family intent on fixing it - having somehow survived the emotional havoc she went through. And survive she did, but not unscathed. This intimate narrative echoes the voice of the narrator's younger self: a sharp, sensitive girl who is keen to life's gifts and hardships. With bare language and smart humor, both delicate and unafraid, the narrator strings a strand of touching stories together in a portrait of an unconventional childhood that crushed her, scarred her, mended her, tore her apart and ultimately made her whole.

Translated from the Spanish to English.

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