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Title Statement | Brother sister mother explorer: a novel / Jamie Figueroa. |
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Alternative Title(s) | Brother, sister, mother, explorer |
Author | Figueroa, Jamie |
Publication | ©2021New York: Catapult,[2021] |
Extent of Item | 225 pages ; |
ISBN | 194822688X 9781948226882 |
Other Number | 3960484 |
Summary | In the tourist town of Ciudad de Tres Hermanas, in the aftermath of their mother's passing, two siblings spend a final weekend together in their childhood home. Seeing her brother, Rafa, careening toward a place of no return, Rufina devises a bet: if they can make enough money performing for privileged tourists in the plaza over the course of the weekend to afford a plane ticket out, Rafa must commit to living. If not, Rufina will make her peace with Rafa's own plan for the future, however terrifying it may be. As the siblings reckon with generational and ancestral trauma, set against the indignities of present-day prejudice, other strange hauntings begin to stalk these pages: their mother's ghost kicks her heels against the walls; Rufina's vanished child creeps into her arms at night; and above all this, watching over the siblings, a genderless, flea-bitten angel remains hell-bent on saving what can be saved. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Grief--Fiction |
Psychic trauma--Fiction | |
Mothers--Fiction--Death | |
Angels--Fiction | |
Brothers and sisters--Fiction | |
By Location | New Mexico--Fiction |
By Genre | Ghost stories |
Magic realism (Literature) |