Finding Fernanda
Title | Finding Fernanda PDF eBook |
Author | Erin Siegal |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2012-05-15 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 0807001430 |
A compelling, dramatic narrative of how an American housewife discovered that the Guatemalan child she was about to adopt had been stolen from her birth mother, shedding light on the alarming and growing problem of international adoption fraud. Over the past five years, over 100,000 children were adopted into the United States, 20,000 of whom came from Guatemala. Finding Fernanda, a dramatic true story paired with investigative reporting, tells the side-by-side tales of an American housewife who adopts a two-year-old girl from Guatemala and the birth mother whose two children were stolen from her. Each woman gradually comes to realize her role in what was one of Guatemala's most profitable black-market industries: the buying and selling of children for international adoption. Finding Fernanda is an overdue, unprecedented look at adoption corruption--and a poignant, riveting human story about the power of hope, faith, and determination.
Finding Fernanda
Title | Finding Fernanda PDF eBook |
Author | Erin Siegal |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2012-05-15 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 0807001856 |
The dramatic story of how an American housewife discovered that the Guatemalan child she was about to adopt had been stolen from her birth mother Over the last decade, nearly 200,000 children have been adopted into the United States, 25,000 of whom came from Guatemala. Finding Fernanda, a dramatic true story paired with investigative reporting, tells the side-by-side tales of an American woman who adopted a two-year-old girl from Guatemala and the birth mother whose two children were stolen from her. Each woman gradually comes to realize her role in what was one of Guatemala’s most profitable black-market industries: the buying and selling of children for international adoption. Finding Fernanda is an overdue, unprecedented look at adoption corruption—and a poignant, riveting human story about the power of hope, faith, and determination.
Hurricane Season
Title | Hurricane Season PDF eBook |
Author | Fernanda Melchor |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 199 |
Release | 2020-10-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0811228045 |
The English-language debut of one of the most thrilling and accomplished young Mexican writers Winner of the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute's Tanslation Prize Longlisted for the National Book Award Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Winner of the Internationaler Literaturpreis New York Public Library Best Books of 2020 Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2020 The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse has the whole village investigating the murder. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on new details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters—inners whom most people would write off as irredeemable—forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village. Like Roberto Bolano’s 2666 or Faulkner’s novels, Hurricane Season takes place in a world saturated with mythology and violence—real violence, the kind that seeps into the soil, poisoning everything around: it’s a world that becomes more and more terrifying the deeper you explore it.
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
Title | Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books PDF eBook |
Author | Hilary Mantel |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2020-10-01 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0008429987 |
A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light
Cockfight
Title | Cockfight PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Fernanda Ampuero |
Publisher | Feminist Press at CUNY |
Pages | 70 |
Release | 2020-06-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1936932830 |
This Ecuadorian short story collection explores domestic horrors and everyday violence, a "grotesque, unflinching" portrait of twenty-first-century Latin America (Publishers Weekly). “Ampuero’s literary voice is tough and beautiful at once: her stories are exquisite and dangerous objects.” —Yuri Herrera, author of Signs Preceding the End of the World Named one of the ten best fiction books of 2018 by the New York Times en Español, Cockfight is the debut work by Ecuadorian writer and journalist María Fernanda Ampuero. In lucid and compelling prose, Ampuero sheds light on the hidden aspects of the home: the grotesque realities of family, coming of age, religion, and class struggle. A family’s maids witness a horrible cycle of abuse, a girl is auctioned off by a gang of criminals, and two sisters find themselves at the mercy of their spiteful brother. With violence masquerading as love, characters spend their lives trapped reenacting their past traumas. Heralding a brutal and singular new voice, Cockfight explores the power of the home to both create and destroy those within it.
The Rooftop
Title | The Rooftop PDF eBook |
Author | Fernanda Trías |
Publisher | Charco Press |
Pages | 82 |
Release | 2021-10-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1913867056 |
In a rundown apartment building, in an unnamed city in Uruguay, a father and daughter close themselves off from the world. "The world is this house," says Clara, and the rooftop becomes their last recess of freedom. A pet canary is their only witness. As Clara’s connection to the outside is stripped away—the neighbor who stops coming by, the lover whose existence is only known by a pregnancy—desperation and paranoia take hold. It's a stifling embrace, and we are there with her, our narrator, dreading what we know the future holds.
Low Tide
Title | Low Tide PDF eBook |
Author | Fernanda Eberstadt |
Publisher | Knopf |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Children of the rich |
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