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Ramifications
Ramifications | Daniel Saldaña París
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Folding and refolding origami frogs, extracting the symmetrical veins from leaves, retreating to an imaginary world in his closet: after Teresa walked out the door one July afternoon in 1994, her son filled the void she left with a series of unusual rituals. Twenty-three years later, he lies in bed, reconstructing the events surrounding his mother's disappearance. Did she actually join the Zapatistas in the jungles of Chiapas, as he was led to believe? He dissects his memories of that fateful summer until a startling discovery shatters his conception of his family's story. Daniel Saldaña París (Among Strange Victims) returns with an emotionally rich anti-coming-of-age novel that wrestles with the inherited privileges and crimes of masculinity.
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WellReadCatLady
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Loved this book and I didn‘t expect a short book to pack such a emotional punch but yeah it did. Took me longer than I would of liked to read because of the Arctic blast in Texas that cause the blackouts and water shortage. I was lucky to have power most of the time but I had a packed apartment with people who lost power. Parents house had a busted pipe and it‘s a struggle to find pasts & a plumber...

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WellReadCatLady
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Going to start this one today I‘ve had it for a few months and never got around to reading it for the book club it was for but there‘s a different book club reading it this month that I hope to join in on.

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charl08
Ramifications | Daniel Saldaña París

I felt something approaching pity for that boy who compensated for a painful, incomprehensible situation by adopting strange behaviours. That frog must have been one of the last I made before giving up origami. It was the product of a turbulent, unstable period when I was struggling to give some meaning, any meaning, to the news that Teresa, my mother, had died the most dreary of deaths on a secondary road, far from the jungle and revolutions...

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charl08
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Why is the cover I haven't got always the one I want?

The original version.

#BorderlessBookclub

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CaroPi
Ramifications | Daniel Saldaña París
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.I have a few days off from work. Is time to read... I wanted to read only horror but I have some books for my reading club. Also I fouund a graphic novel that is not horror... But let's start!

Pageturner1 Mmm 😋 that pie looks good! 4y
CaroPi @Pageturner1 well is actually a cheesecake but yes is really good. I wish I can cook that well. But is from the bakery close to my house 4y
Pageturner1 even better 4y
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