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Blood Red (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781632063304)
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xThe exhilarating English-language debut from celebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Ponce, Blood Red centers the female body in a radical exploration of desire, choice, and consequences.
In a torrent of stream-of-consciousness fragments, the unnamed narrator of Blood Red recounts the aftermath of her failed marriage in explicit, sensual detail. She falls in and out of love, parties with her friends, skates around the city at night, does a lot of drugs, and gives in to her impulses. Her internal monologue is punctuated by bouts of trypophobia, an obsessive cataloging of holes that empty, fill, widen, and threaten to swallow her entirely. Blood courses through her every encounter from periods, fights, accidents, wounds, sex, streaming to and from her holey fixation. Blood is a vibrant reminder of her physicality, a manifestation of her interiority, a link to memories and sensations--until its abrupt absence changes everything.
Provocative and raw, Blood Red is a fierce portrayal of a woman navigating the gray--or red--zones of her uncertainties and paradoxical urges. A subversive grappling with what it means to wrest power over one's body, revels in the narrator's autonomy to make choices and face the outcomes, no matter the scale.
Author: Gabriela Ponce
ISBN-10: 1632063301
ISBN-13: 9781632063304
Publisher: Restless Books
Language: English
Published: 10/04/2022
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.10h x 4.90w x 0.70d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2022
Publishers Weekly 08/22/2022
Library Journal 10/01/2022 pg. 134
In a torrent of stream-of-consciousness fragments, the unnamed narrator of Blood Red recounts the aftermath of her failed marriage in explicit, sensual detail. She falls in and out of love, parties with her friends, skates around the city at night, does a lot of drugs, and gives in to her impulses. Her internal monologue is punctuated by bouts of trypophobia, an obsessive cataloging of holes that empty, fill, widen, and threaten to swallow her entirely. Blood courses through her every encounter from periods, fights, accidents, wounds, sex, streaming to and from her holey fixation. Blood is a vibrant reminder of her physicality, a manifestation of her interiority, a link to memories and sensations--until its abrupt absence changes everything.
Provocative and raw, Blood Red is a fierce portrayal of a woman navigating the gray--or red--zones of her uncertainties and paradoxical urges. A subversive grappling with what it means to wrest power over one's body, revels in the narrator's autonomy to make choices and face the outcomes, no matter the scale.
Author: Gabriela Ponce
ISBN-10: 1632063301
ISBN-13: 9781632063304
Publisher: Restless Books
Language: English
Published: 10/04/2022
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.10h x 4.90w x 0.70d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2022
Publishers Weekly 08/22/2022
Library Journal 10/01/2022 pg. 134
By Gabriela Ponce
xGabriela Ponce (Quito, 1977) is a fiction writer, playwright and theater director, as well as a professor of performing arts at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador. In 2015, she published her first book Antropofaguitas, which was considered the best book of short stories by the Ministry of Culture. In 2019, she published the novel Sangu匤ea (Severo Editorial), also published in Spain by Editorial Candaya, which was awarded the Gallegos Lara prize by the Municipality of Quito for Best Novel of the Year. In 2020, she published Solo hay un jard匤: en el fondo de todo hay un jard匤 (La Ca冝a editorial) a compilation of her plays. She is part of Mitana, performing arts collective and co-founder of the cultural venue Casa Mitana. She is on the editorial board of Sycorax magazine.
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