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The Empire of Dirt
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ISBN13: 9780393881776
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Jul 12 2022
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
There has always been tension in the blind house, where Valentina lives with her mother and grandmother in the Italian countryside. Valentina's pious grandmother often hints at a family curse, while Valentina's mother scoffs at superstition; it's one of the battlegrounds on which they fight to control Valentina's upbringing.
But in the summer of 1996, when Valentina is twelve, she gets her period for the first time--and the curse suddenly becomes frighteningly real. Blood leaks from the walls; the house and farm are overrun with frogs; the kitchen crawls with flies. Valentina is certain that she has brought catastrophe to her house and its inhabitants.
In this propulsive coming-of-age novel, of mother-daughter relationships and painful family legacies, Valentina is forever changed by the events of one terrifying summer.
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