The Body Where I Was Born
Nettel, Guadalupe / Lichtenstein, J. T. The first novel to appear in English by one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed writers of new Mexican fiction. From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood-in which she was born with an abnormality in her eye into a family intent on fixing it. In a world without the time and space for innocence, the narrator intimately recalls her younger self-a fierce and discerning girl open to life's pleasure...