twin time

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ISBN: 9781584350484

or, how death befell me

Veronica Gonzalez Peña

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English

Semiotext (E)
21 September 2007

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents

A young woman's fabulist search for her long-lost twin brother overturns all notions of motherhood, magic realism, and miscegenation.... as I poured my father's ashes into a big Ziploc bag, a little of my blood dripped in. I thought about how each cell has all of you fully inscribed in it, so that if I left those drops in there, it would be as if I were already dead too. I plunged in then, to try and get myself out, but it was all so sticky that I had to give up; when I pulled out my hand, parts of my father were stuck all over it...-from Twin Time Witty, sarcastic, and sensuous, Twin Time- or, how death befell me tells the story of Mona, who, upon her father's death in Los Angeles, decides to set off in search of her long-lost twin brother, given away as an infant. With her father's ashes as a guide of dubious reliability, Mona embarks upon a quest that takes her into a forest where she's confronted by-among other beings-a band of Nordic men, her Chinese doppelganger, a lascivious giant, and a pack of feral children. Along the way Mona recounts her parents' past as she imagines it, a romantic tale of love and rescue set in a fabulist, idealized Mexico-a dreamy place that only vaguely resembles the harsh quotidian realities of the 1960s Mexico City her parents inhabited. When Mona finds her brother at last, she learns that he grew up in London with their mother-who had supposedly (or so Mona had been told) died in childbirth-and her parents' story is thrown into further disarray. By the end of the journey, all Mona's received ideas of home, motherhood, magic realism, and miscegenation have been overturned.

Veronica Gonzalez is the coeditor of Juncture- 25 Very Good Stories and 12 Excellent Drawings and the founder of rockypoint Press, a series of artist-writer collaborations produced in association with 1301PE Gallery. Twin Time is her first novel.

By: Veronica Gonzalez Peña
Imprint: Semiotext (E)
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9781584350484
ISBN 10: 1584350482
Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 21 September 2007
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Veronica Gonzalez Pena is the author of twin time- or, how death befell me, which won the Premio Aztlan Literary Prize in 2007. She is also the founder of rockypoint Press, which produces a series of artist-writer collaborations.

Reviews for twin time: or, how death befell me

I loved the fabric of this book; the rhythm was palpable. The forces swirling in and around the young girl and the estranged and luscious descriptions of nature and mating and storytelling and dreams were told so silently. It was like being in an aquarium looking out somehow. -- Eileen Myles * the Believer * Defying easy categorization, Gonzalez's debut novel is an often-mesmerizing account of a young woman's search for the truth about her parents, with absorbing stream-of-consciousness passages that draw the reader into her mind.... * Publisher's Weekly * [A] lush and layered debut... -- Pam Houston * O, The Oprah Magazine *

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