Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer

Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award A fableistic, beautifully crafted, poetic debut novel of enormous...
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Author: Jamie Figueroa
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Language: English
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Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer by Figueroa, Jamie

Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer

¥6,037

Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer

¥6,037
Author: Jamie Figueroa
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award

A fableistic, beautifully crafted, poetic debut novel of enormous power and grace about a sister trying to hold back her brother from the edge of the abyss for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Tommy Orange (The New York Times Book Review).

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.

Author: Jamie Figueroa
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 03/02/2021
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781948226882


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 11/01/2020 pg. 38
Publishers Weekly 02/01/2021
Library Journal 03/01/2021 pg. 83

About the Author
Jamie Figueroa received her MFA in creative writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her writing has appeared in Epoch, McSweeney's, and American Short Fiction. She is the recipient of the Truman Capote Scholarship and is a Bread Loaf scholar. Boricua by way of Ohio, Figueroa lives in northern New Mexico.

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