My last three reads have been two audiobooks: Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego, by Mariana Enriquez, 4.05 avg rating – 52,201 ratings – published 2016 – 82 editions, 200 pages, Antes de ser libres, by Julia Alvarez (Goodreads Author), Liliana Valenzuela (Goodreads Author) (Translator), 3.90 avg rating – 9,048 ratings – published 2002 […]| Silvia Cachia
“If I didn’t want to compete, I wanted even less to make new rules about what constitutes victory. I would want what everyone else wanted, even if I couldn’t attain it.” - Faye, in Rachel Cusk’s Transit. These sentences, like much of the texts of Outline, Transit, and Kudos, come from the internal monologue of the narrator, Faye. She does not speak them aloud or to other characters; they are private moral commitments within novels about private terrains. Faye’s promised refusal...| Meta is Murder