TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ocampo,Silvina
AU  - Levine,Suzanne Jill
AU  - Powell,Jessica
TI  - The promise
SN  - 9780872867710
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - San Francisco
PB  - City Lights Books
KW  - Survival at sea
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Argentine fiction
KW  - 20th century
N2  - "A dying woman's attempt to recount the story of her life reveals the fragility of memory and the illusion of identity"--; A woman traveling on a transatlantic ship falls overboard; adrift, she makes a promise to Saint Rita, "arbiter of the impossible," that if she survives, she will write her life story. As she drifts, the story of her life-- a repertoire of miracles, threats, and people parade tumultuously through her mind. Eventually her imagination begins to commandeer her memories, escaping the strictures of realism
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