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Camanchaca
Camanchaca | Diego Zuniga
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A long drive across Chile's Atacama desert, traversing "the worn-out puzzle" of a broken familya young man's corrosive intimacy with his mother, the obtrusive cheer of his absentee father, his uncle's unexplained deathoccupies the heart of this novel. Camanchaca is a low fog pushing in from the sea, its moisture sustaining a near-barren landscape. "Camanchaca "is the discretion that makes a lifelong grief possible. Sometimes, the silences are what bind us.Diego Zuniga (born 1987) is a Chilean author and journalist. He is the author of two novels and the recipient of the Juegos Literarios Gabriela Mistral and the Chilean National Book and Reading Council Award. He lives in Santiago de Chile.Megan McDowell's translations include books by Alejandro Zambra, Arturo Fontaine, Lina Meruane, and Mariana Enriquez, and have been published in the "New Yorker," the "Paris Review," "Tin House," and "McSweeney's," among others. She lives in Santiago, Chile."
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DreesReads
Camanchaca | Diego Zuniga
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Super quick read! More a novella than a novel. A 20-year-old man with a good addiction and bad teeth describes life with his mother, grandfather, father and his new family, and his childhood. He acts more like a 15-year-old, while his dad rushes through things and doesn't have time for others. I had to check out google maps to learn something about Chilean geography.

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DreesReads
Camanchaca | Diego Zuniga
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Next up for fiction! Only 110 pages--we'll see if it's quick or not.

RealBooks4ever Sounds interesting! 😺 7y
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DreesReads
Camanchaca | Diego Zuniga
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Signed up for another library system summer reading program. Then got sucked in by the new fiction shelves....

RealLifeReading My library's gone digital for its summer reading this year. Not sure that I like it online... 7y
DreesReads The main system I use has gone digital if you want (I use it), or not (even my 14 year old likes the card!). This other system hasn't gone digital--and they have better prizes. Because you know I am finishing. What's 20 hours of reading? I do t even need to double dip lol. 7y
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JoshCook
Camanchaca | Diego Zuniga
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Is it weird to say Coffee House might have a book with YA crossover potential? A thoughtful, even mediatative, story of a young man for whom the problems of his parents, the problems of the adult world that he is approaching, are still just beyond his understanding.

coffeehousepress We like that idea! 8y
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