A searing family drama from one of Latin America's most original
voicesOne trip. Two love stories. Three voices.
Lito is ten years old and is almost sure he can change the weather
when he concentrates very hard. His father, Mario, anxious to
create a memory that will last for his son's lifetime, takes him on
a road trip in a truck called Pedro. But Lito doesn't know that
this might be their last trip: Mario is gravely ill. Together,
father and son embark on a journey takes them through strange
geographies that seem to meld the different parts of the
Spanish-speaking world. In the meantime, Lito's mother, Elena,
restlessly seeks support in books, and soon undertakes an adventure
of her own that will challenge her moral limits. Each narrative--of
father, son, and mother--embodies one of the different ways that we
talk to ourselves: through speech, through thought, and through
writing. While neither of them dares to tell the complete truth to
the other two, their individual voices nonetheless form a poignant
conversation.
Sooner or later, we all face loss. Andres Neuman movingly narrates
the ways the lives of those who survive loss are transformed; how
that experience changes our ideas about time, memory, and our own
bodies; and how the acts of reading, and of sex, can serve as
powerful modes of resistance. "Talking to Ourselves" presents a
tender yet unsentimental portrait of the workings of love and
family; a reflection both on grief and on the consolation of words.
Neuman, the author of the award-winning "Traveler of the Century,"
displays his characteristic warmth, bittersweet humor, and
wide-ranging intellect, giving us the rich, textured, and
strikingly different voices and experiences of three singular
characters while presenting, above all, a profound tribute to those
who have ever had to care for a loved one.
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