January by Sara Gallardo (.ePUB)+
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January by Sara Gallardo
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Overview: A revelatory, pioneering masterpiece about the life, rape, and abortion of a 16-year-old Argentine farmworker—now in English for the very first time
With 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 Argentina.
In the sweltering Argentine pampas, all things bow to Nefer. Reeds nod when she digs her heels into her horse, unripe peaches snap and fall as she gallops past. 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. Her belly swells.
Desperate, Nefer visits a local medicine woman who is known to perform abortions but Nefer becomes too afraid to explain why she is truly there.
She attends confession at church but cannot confide in the priest. During a fierce argument with her mother, she finally blurts out her secret.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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