02587cam a2200325 4500 2745623506 TxAuBib 20250506120000.0 260505s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781639730049 1639730044 amodrfz9 CloudLibrary MnSpTMCL eng MnSpTMCL TxAuBib Nettel, Guadalupe. Still Born [CloudLibrary (E-Read Texas)] / Nettel, Guadalupe. [S.l. : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. 1 online resource. 224 p. Electronic book. "Both uplifting and gut-wrenching, often at the same time . . . At its heart, it is a story about the many different ways to be a family, and it made me reflect on what an honor it is to care for someone you truly love.” -Dua Lipa Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize A profound novel about motherhood, friendship, and the power of community from “one of the leading lights in contemporary Latin American literature” (Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive). Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura is so determined not to become a mother that she has taken the drastic decision to have her tubes tied. But when she announces this to her friend, she learns that Alina has made the opposite decision and is preparing to have a child of her own. Alina's pregnancy shakes the women's lives, first creating distance and then a remarkable closeness between them. When Alina's daughter survives childbirth – after a diagnosis that predicted the opposite – and Laura becomes attached to her neighbor's son, both women are forced to reckon with the complexity of their emotions, their needs, and the needs of the people who are dependent upon them. In prose that is as gripping as it is insightful, Guadalupe Nettel explores maternal ambivalence with a surgeon's touch, carefully dissecting the contradictions that make up the lived experiences of women. Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] Bloomsbury Publishing 2023 Available via World Wide Web. Format: Adobe EPUB. Requires: CloudLibrary (file size: 8.6 MB.) FICTION|Literary. FICTION|Contemporary Women. FICTION|Family Life. Electronic books. CloudLibrary. https://ebook.yourcloudlibrary.com/library/ereadtexas-document_id-amodrfz9 CloudLibrary BSBPL