By the Colombian author of The Bitch, a 2020 National Book Award
Finalist and PEN Awards Winner "An eight-year-old girl takes in a
series of troubling events in this luminous and transfixing account
of fractured family life from Colombian writer Quintana (The
Bitch). Readers will be dazzled." -Publishers Weekly, STARRED
REVIEW Claudia is an impressionable eight-year-old girl, trying to
understand the world through the eyes of the adults around her. But
her hardworking father hardly speaks a word, while her unhappy
mother spends her days reading celebrity lifestyle magazines,
tending to her enormous collection of plants, and filling Claudia's
head with stories about women who end their lives in tragic ways.
Then an interloper arrives, disturbing the delicate balance of
family life, and Claudia's world starts falling apart. In this
strikingly vivid portrait of Cali, Colombia, Claudia's acute
observations remind us that children are capable of discerning
extremely complex realities even if they cannot fully understand
them. In Abyss, Quintana leads us brilliantly into the lonely heart
of the child we have all once been, driven by fear of abandonment.
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