A thrilling metafiction about grief, the internet, and the difficulty of knowing others,The Voices of Adrianacombines the psychological acuity of Marguerite Duras with the creative possibility ofOne Thousand and One Nights.
Adriana has become obsessed with her fathers online dating. Recently widowed, hes on a self-destructive, manic search for a partner to accompany him through his twilight years. At the same time, her life as an isolated grad student feels unreal, and to fill the void of her mothers death, Adriana begins writing, trying on different voices. She builds worlds from the online profiles of her fathers latest flings, that is until more fundamental voicesthose of her grandmother and motherbegin calling out to her in the night.The Voices of Adriana, the latest from Spanish writer Elvira Navarro, is an innovative novel about grief and how we might reanimate the voices of those weve lost, not as ghosts, but as living parts of ourselves.
Paperback | 178 pages | 4.80″ x 8.00″
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