Brother Sister Mother Explorer A Novel

Description: Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award A fableistic "beautifully crafted poetic" debut novel of enormous power and grace about a sister trying to hold back her brother from the edge of the abyss for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Tommy Orange (The New York Times Book Review). In the tourist town of Ciudad de Tres Hermanas in the aftermath of their mother's passing two siblings spend a final weekend together in their childhood home. Seeing her brother Rafa careening toward a place of no return Rufina devises a bet: if they can make enough money performing for privileged tourists in the plaza over the course of the weekend to afford a plane ticket out Rafa must commit to living. If not Rufina will make her peace with Rafa's own plan for the future however terrifying it may be. As the siblings reckon with generational and ancestral trauma set against the indignities of present - day prejudice other strange hauntings begin to stalk these pages: their mother's ghost kicks her heels against the walls; Rufina's vanished child creeps into her arms at night; and above all this watching over the siblings a genderless flea - bitten angel remains hell - bent on saving what can be saved.
Title: Brother Sister Mother Explorer A Novel
Barcode: 9781948226882
Publication Date: 3/2/2021