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Vida

Vida

Engel, Patricia

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ISBN10: 0802170781
ISBN13: 9780802170781
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Published: Sep 7 2010
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.34
Language: English
Awards: Florida Book Award, Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, Independent Publisher Book Awards
Fresh, accomplished, and fearless, Vida marks the debut of Patricia Engel, a young author of immense talent and promise. Vida follows a single narrator, Sabina, as she navigates her shifting identity as a daughter of the Colombian diaspora and struggles to find her place within and beyond the net of her strong, protective, but embattled family.

In Lucho, Sabina's family--already foreigners in a town of blancos--is shunned by the community when a relative commits an unspeakable act of violence, but she is in turn befriended by the town bad boy who has a secret of his own; in Desaliento, Sabina surrounds herself with other young drifters who spend their time looking for love and then fleeing from it--until reality catches up with one of them; and in Vida, the urgency of Sabina's self-imposed exile in Miami fades when she meets an enigmatic Colombian woman with a tragic past.

Patricia Engel maps landscapes both actual and interior in this stunning debut, and the constant throughout is Sabina--serious, witty, alternately cautious and reckless, open to transformation yet skeptical of its lasting power. Infused by a hard-won, edgy wisdom, Vida introduces a sensational new literary voice.

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