Aphasia /
Cardenas, Mauro Javier,
Aphasia / Aphasia : a novel Mauro Javier Cárdenas. - First edition. - vi, 195 pages ; 22 cm
Subtitle from book jacket.
"Antonio works making spreadsheets for Bank of America, but not-so-secretly wants to be a great writer--or indeed to do anything that will help him avoid thinking about his sister, a paranoid schizophrenic on the run from the police. Antonio's attempts to write a novel become an ekphrastic performance of avoidance and evasion, darting between the past and the present to consider relationships erotic and familial, the worlds of architecture and literature, and how these languages might affect our lives."--
9780374257866 0374257868
2020025570
Dysfunctional families--Fiction.
Colombian Americans--Fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Novels.
Aphasia / Aphasia : a novel Mauro Javier Cárdenas. - First edition. - vi, 195 pages ; 22 cm
Subtitle from book jacket.
"Antonio works making spreadsheets for Bank of America, but not-so-secretly wants to be a great writer--or indeed to do anything that will help him avoid thinking about his sister, a paranoid schizophrenic on the run from the police. Antonio's attempts to write a novel become an ekphrastic performance of avoidance and evasion, darting between the past and the present to consider relationships erotic and familial, the worlds of architecture and literature, and how these languages might affect our lives."--
9780374257866 0374257868
2020025570
Dysfunctional families--Fiction.
Colombian Americans--Fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Novels.