Deploys a variety of texts, documents, images, and forms of address and inquiry.Structures the story in nine parts around the Greek Muses.
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Six young artists share an apartment in Barcelona: Kiki Ortega, a researcher writing a pornographic novel Iván Herrera, a writer whose prose reveals a deeply conflicted relationship with his body three siblings, Irene, Emilio, and Cecilia, who quietly search for ways to transcend their abuse as children and El Cuco Martínez, a video-game designer whose creations push beneath the substrate of the digital world. 978-1-56689-689-4 A techno-horror portrait of the fears and desires of six young artists whose lives are upended by a controversial video game, from National Book Award finalist Mónica Ojeda.A novel by Mónica Ojeda, trans. Sarah Booker October 24, 2023 From Greta Thunberg’s addressing the UN on climate change to women reclaiming Medusa, rage is really up for a lot of women. Marissa Korbel: Anger, particularly women’s anger, is so much the zeitgeist at the moment. We are our own whole people, and anger is a part of being whole, but it isn’t negating to our womanhood. 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