Cross-stitch / Jazmina Barrera ; translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney.
Material type:
TextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publisher: San Francisco, CA : Two Lines Press, [2023]Description: 255 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781949641530
- 1949641538
- Punto de cruz. English
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Fiction | New | BARRERA JAZMINA | Available | 33111011211279 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A debut novel of female friendship and coming-of-age from Jazmina Barrera, acclaimed author of Linea Nigra and On Lighthouses , translated by Christina MacSweeney.
It was meant to be the trip of a lifetime. Mila, Citlali, and Dalia, childhood friends now college aged, leave Mexico City for the London of The Clash and the Paris of Courbet. They anticipate the cafés and crushes, but not the early signs that they are each steadily, inevitably changing.
That feels like forever ago. Mila, now a writer and a new mother, has just published a book on needlecraft--an art form so long dismissed as "women's work." But after learning Citlali has drowned, Mila begins to sift through her old scrapbooks, reflecting on their shared youth for the first time as a new wife and mother. What has come of all the nights the three friends spent embroidering together in silence? Did she miss the signs that Citlali needed help?
"The story of three childhood friends-Mila, Citali, and Dalia-over the course of their friendship and into adulthood, fused with the cultural history of sewing"-- Provided by publisher.