City of Incurable Women PB_Gift_Guide El misterio de la muerte

El misterio de la muerte de su madre Isabella ha abierto un abismo en su alma del que su esposa Bea y su fiel amigo Ferm

Mexico City

Her decision echoes for years after the war

often comical exploration of weight

Feel lost thinking about the future

City of Incurable Women PB_Gift_Guide El misterio de la muerteIn a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth century women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignoredCity of Incurable Women is a brilliant exploration of the type of female bodily and psychic pain once commonly diagnosed as hysteriaand the curiously hysterical response to it commonly exhibited by medical men. It is a novel of powerful originality, riveting historical interest, and haunting lyrical beauty. Sigrid Nunez, author of The