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Of beasts and fowls

Call Number

  • FICTION ADON (CEN, OSH)

Edition

First edition.

Languages

In English, translated from the Spanish.

Publication Information

Rochester, NY : Open Letter, 2024.

Physical Description

197 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

Summer is ending and Coro, an artist frightened of what her paintings of her dead sister may represent, gets in her car one night and starts to drive, with no plan or destination. After a wrong turn down a narrow dirt road, she runs out of gas outside the gates of a large and isolated house called Bethany, a place inhabited exclusively by a small group of women who seem to exist in a closed, hierarchical system a world apart. The women of Bethany live closely with the natural and animal world, celebrate rites and rituals, and, like devotees of an ancestral cult, all dress the same. Most unsettlingly, they seem to know who Coro is already. In fact, they have been expecting her.

Notes

Translated from the Spanish.

"Originally published as De bestias y aves by Galaxia Gutenberg, 2022" -- Title page verso.

Added Authors

Katie Whittemore