The wonders : a novel

Medel, Elena 1985- (author.). Davis, Lizzie, 1993- (translator.). Bunstead, Thomas, (translator.).

Summary: María moved to the city in 1969, leaving her daughter with her family but hoping to save enough to take care of her one day. She worked as a housekeeper, a caregiver, a cleaner--somehow always taking care of someone else. Two generations later, during the Women's March in 2018, Alicia was working at the snack shop in the Atocha train station when it overflowed with protesters and strikers. Women, so many women, were flooding the streets with their signs and chants. She couldn't have known María was among them; she was on the clock. And later, she'd be looking for someone else, a man to take her away for a few hours, to make her forget. Anyone but her husband, with his pleas to go on bike rides together, to have children, to act like the other thirtysomething couples they knew.

Record details

ISBN: 9781643752112
Physical Description: 229 pages ; 22 cm
regular print
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2022.
Copyright: ©2022