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A young mother in Mexico City, captive to a history that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a residence she cannot depart or fully occupy, writes a novel of her times as a translator living in New York. A young translator, adrift in Harlem, is needy to convert and release the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet who resided in Harlem during the 1920s and whose ghostly existence haunts her in the city's subways. And Gilberto Owen, dying in Philadelphia in the 1950s, convinced he is little by little disappearing, recalls his heyday decades before; his friendships with Nella Larsen and Federico García Lorca; and the young woman in a red jacket he saw in the windows of transferring trains. As the voices of the narrators overlap and combine, they drift into one single stream, an elegiac evocation of love and reduction. Valeria Luiselli's debut signs the arrival of a significant international writer and an urgent and necessary tone in contemporary fiction.
