Pantano
| Title | Pantano |
|---|---|
| Author | Felker, Ana Emilia |
| Publisher | Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. |
| Imprint | Almadia |
| ISBN | 9786078851706 |
| Edition number | 1 |
| Publication year | 2024 |
| Pages | 200 |
| Format | Printed |
| THEMA | Fiction and Related items |
| Synopsis | In the United States, the border does not end at the violent and hyper-surveilled riverbed of the Rio Grande; checkpoints persist within the territory in school hallways, on freshly cut grass where flags wave, in hospitals and in the kitchens of homes, in the parking lot of a Walmart. In the midst of the unprecedented increase in Latin American migration, attempts to contain it are intensified when racism and hate speech demand to be heard. In this scenario, Ana Emilia Felker decides to live four years in Houston to study for a doctorate. She knows that it will be difficult to feel at home in this country where war and death are negotiated with nationality and debt, but this land is also the place of origin and residence of half of her family. Setting out on a journey across water, desert, and highways, she questions how much the American dream costs, what defines whiteness, how to talk about mass shootings while respecting the dignity of the victims, while helping her grandfather sort out his stories and trying to reestablish with her father a conversation that seems stuck in the past. Through chronicles, essays, and personal diaries, Ana Emilia proposes a writing that is as intimate as it is rigorous to think about identity, question racism, and tell what happens when loved ones are separated by walls that cut across space, time, and desire. |
| foreign rights contact | Elizabet Osorio Osorio |
| eosorio@corporativoventura.mx |
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