A series of luminous vignettes describe the childhood of
Argentina's rediscovered modernist writer. Self-contained,
interconnected fragments begin with her family's departure to
Mendoza in 1910 and end with their return to Buenos Aires and the
death of her father in 1915. Lange's notes tell intimate,
half-understood stories from the seemingly peaceful realm of
childhood, a realm inhabited by an eccentric narrator searching for
clues on womanhood and her own identity. She watches: her pubescent
older sister, bathing naked in the moonlight; the death of a horse;
and herself, a changeable and untimely girl. How she cried, when
lifted onto a table and dressed as a boy, and how she laughed,
climbing onto the kitchen roof in men's clothing and throwing
bricks to announce her performance. Lange makes her domestic
setting into a laboratory where strangeness and eroticism combine
in delicate, daring flashes of literary brilliance.
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