January Gallardo Sara
January Gallardo Sara A revelatory, pioneering masterpiece about the life, rape, and abortion of a 16-year-old Argentine farmworker--now in English for the very first timeWith echoes of Edith…
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January Gallardo Sara
A revelatory, pioneering masterpiece about the life, rape, and abortion of a 16-year-old Argentine farmworker--now in English for the very first timeWith echoes of Edith Wharton's Summer, this radical feminist novel broke the silence around abortion to reshape the way women's bodies and rights were perceived in 20th-century ArgentinaPerfect for readers of Tove Ditlevsen, Annie Ernaux's Happening, and Claudia Pieiro's Elana KnowsIn the sweltering Argentine pampas, all things bow to Nefer. Sickly-sweet air bends, churns in Nefer's throat.Nefer measures the distance between her body and the table, and feels something filling her up, turning against her. Reeds nod when she digs her heels into her horse, unripe peaches snap and fall as she gallops past.
Her belly swells.Desperate, Nefer visits a local medicine woman who is known to perform