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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.
For all of the effects of erasure and absence on The Sad Passions, the narration is incredibly present, crawling on the page in spidery, sprawling observations, setting up pools and lairs that lure a reader in. -- Margaret Wappler, Los Angeles Times The Sad Passions, Veronica Gonzalez Pena's extraordinary novel of desire, loss, and matrilineal history, explodes the teenage pregnancy script through its unflinching plumbing of the bond between mother and daughter. The Sad Passions begins with a story we think we know, and then shows us how little any of us understand: about our ancestors, our parents, ourselves. -- Lisa Locascio, The Los Angeles Review of Books
