The body where I was born, a novel, Guadalupe Nettel ; translated from the Spanish by J.T. Lichtenstein
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The body where I was born, a novel, Guadalupe Nettel ; translated from the Spanish by J.T. Lichtenstein
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The body where I was born
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904715465
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Guadalupe Nettel ; translated from the Spanish by J.T. Lichtenstein
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a novel
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"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 who is keen to life's gifts and hardships. With bare language and smart humor, both delicate and unafraid, the narrator strings a strand of touching stories together in a portrait of an unconventional childhood that crushed her, scarred her, mended her, tore her apart and ultimately made her whole"--, Provided by publisher
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