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001			on1362528986
003			OCoLC
005			20230216151625.0
008			230119t20232021nyu e 000 1 eng d
040			_aIG$ _beng _erda _cIG$ _dIG$ _dJVK _dGP5 _dNFG
020			_a9781642861228 _q(paperback)
020			_a1642861227 _q(paperback)
035			_a(OCoLC)1362528986
041	1		_aeng _hspa
092			_aQUINTANA _bPILAR
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aQuintana, Pilar, _d1972- _eauthor.
240	1	0	_aAbismos. _lEnglish
245	1	0	_aAbyss / _cPilar Quintana ; translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman.
264		1	_aNew York : _bWorld Editions, _c2023.
264		4	_c©2021
300			_a219 pages ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aFirst published as Los abismos in Spain.
520			_a"Claudia seeks the attention of her melancholic mother, also named Claudia, who occupies her days reading gossip magazines and tending to the family's teeming collection of house plants in their Cali, Colombia, apartment. The mother is particularly obsessed with the deaths of famous women such as actor Natalie Wood, who died in 1981, and tells the narrator they took their own lives to escape from domineering men. The older Claudia married the narrator's father, Jorge, at 19 when he was 42, and though he's away working most of the time, the younger Claudia reveres him. The older Claudia then begins a secret love affair with her 30-year-old brother in law, which is exposed during a family trip to a seashore city, and Jorge threatens to kick Claudia out. Overhearing this, the narrator changes her view of Jorge, likening him to a monster. Later, the older Claudia's best friend, Gloria dies by suicide, and Claudia's comments on Gloria, who suffered from depression, make the narrator worried about her mother's safety and well-being. Visceral images propel the story ("Mama laughed so wide, you could see the roof of her mouth, hollow and grooved like an underfed torso"), as the narrator grows increasingly concerned about what's going to happen next."-- _cProvided by publisher.
546			_aIn English, translated from Spanish.
650		0	_aFamilies _vFiction. _93570
650		0	_aMothers and daughters _vFiction. _91062
650		0	_aAdultery _vFiction. _953950
650		0	_aDepressed persons _vFiction. _9302841
655		7	_aDomestic fiction. _2lcgft _93574
655		7	_aNovels. _2lcgft _92408
700	1		_aDillman, Lisa, _etranslator.
994			_aC0 _bNFG
999			_c362853 _d362853