The Body Where I Was Born

The novel of an unconventional childhood in the seventies by one of the most talked-about writers of new Mexican fiction.

From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood — in which she was born with a birth defect into a family intent on fixing it — having somehow survived the emotional havoc she went through. And survive she did, but not unscathed. This intimate narrative echoes the voice of the narrator's younger self, a sharp, sensitive girl keen to life's hardships.

With bare language and smart humor, both delicate and unafraid, the narrator strings a strand of touching moments together to create a portrait of an unconventional childhood that crushed her, scarred her, mended her, tore her apart and ultimately made her whole.

• Author
• Guadalupe Nettel, J.T. Lichtenstein

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 175

• Publisher
• Seven Stories Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781609805265

• Genres
• fiction, novels, contemporary, womens, literature, disability

• Release date
• 2015