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Oloixarac Pola - Mona A Novel - Paperback
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Description: From Pola Oloixarac the critically acclaimed author of Savage Theories and Dark Constellations comes Mona in which success as a writer of color proves to be a fresh hell for a young Latin American woman at a literary conference in Sweden. Mona a Peruvian writer based in California presents a tough and sardonic exterior. She likes drugs and cigarettes and when she learns that she is something of an anthropological curiosity a woman writer of color treasured at her university for the flourish of rarefied diversity she brings she pokes fun at American academic culture and its fixation on identity. When she is nominated for the most important literary award in Europe Mona sees a chance to escape her downward spiral of sunlit substance abuse and erotic distraction so she trades the temptations of California for a small gray village in Sweden close to the Arctic Circle. Now she is stuck in the company of all her jet - lagged and mostly male competitors arriving from Japan France Armenia Iran and Colombia. Isolated as they are the writers do what writers do: exchange compliments nurse envy and private resentments stab rivals in the back and hop in bed together. All the while Mona keeps stumbling across the mysterious traces of a violence she cannot explain. As her adventures in Scandinavia unfold Mona finds that she has not so much escaped her demons as locked herself up with them in the middle of nowhere. In Mona Pola Oloixarac paints a hypnotic scabrous and ultimately jaw - dropping portrait of a woman facing down a hipster elite to which she does and does not belong. A survivor of both patronization and bizarre sexual encounters Mona is a new kind of feminist. But her past won t stay past and strange forces are working to deliver her the test of a lifetime.
Title: Mona A Novel
Author(s): Oloixarac Pola
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250829573
Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/15/2022
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: From Pola Oloixarac the critically acclaimed author of Savage Theories and Dark Constellations comes Mona in which success as a writer of color proves to be a fresh hell for a young Latin American woman at a literary conference in Sweden. Mona a Peruvian writer based in California presents a tough and sardonic exterior. She likes drugs and cigarettes and when she learns that she is something of an anthropological curiosity a woman writer of color treasured at her university for the flourish of rarefied diversity she brings she pokes fun at American academic culture and its fixation on identity. When she is nominated for the most important literary award in Europe Mona sees a chance to escape her downward spiral of sunlit substance abuse and erotic distraction so she trades the temptations of California for a small gray village in Sweden close to the Arctic Circle. Now she is stuck in the company of all her jet - lagged and mostly male competitors arriving from Japan France Armenia Iran and Colombia. Isolated as they are the writers do what writers do: exchange compliments nurse envy and private resentments stab rivals in the back and hop in bed together. All the while Mona keeps stumbling across the mysterious traces of a violence she cannot explain. As her adventures in Scandinavia unfold Mona finds that she has not so much escaped her demons as locked herself up with them in the middle of nowhere. In Mona Pola Oloixarac paints a hypnotic scabrous and ultimately jaw - dropping portrait of a woman facing down a hipster elite to which she does and does not belong. A survivor of both patronization and bizarre sexual encounters Mona is a new kind of feminist. But her past won t stay past and strange forces are working to deliver her the test of a lifetime.
Title: Mona A Novel
Author(s): Oloixarac Pola
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250829573
Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/15/2022
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
