ISBN: 9781566896214
Editorial: Ojeda, Mónica
Autor: Ojeda, Mónica
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 272
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: Críticas The New York Times, "New Books in Translation"The A.V. Club, "Books to Read in February"Words Without Borders, "Most Anticipated"February Indie Next ListLitReactor, "2022 Horror You Do Not Want to Miss"Latinx in Publishing, "Most Anticipated 2022 Latinx Books""Six girls in a private Catholic high school in Ecuador turn to the occult in Mónica Ojeda's macabre English-language debut novel, Jawbone. The girls' ringleader, Annelise, entertains her friends with tales of a made-up deity and eggs them on with strange dares. Soon enough, she and her friend Fernanda are falling in love, raising the stakes of Annelise's fabricated creepypasta. Ojeda has drawn comparisons to Shirley Jackson, H.P. Lovecraft, and Edgar Allen Poe." --The A.V. Club"Jawbone depicts the process of becoming a woman as the ultimate horror story. . . . With terrifying ease, Ojeda illustrates how womanhood is characterized by dualities: fearful and feared, desired and desiring." --Morgan Graham, Chicago Review of Books"Rife with gothic body horror and the darkness of the jungle and within ourselves. . . . Ojeda is a strikingly singular voice, combining basic teen angst with stark madness and the power of teen girls to push back in a world that tries to make them powerless." --Yvonne C. Garrett, The Brooklyn Rail"Delectable. . . . There are echoes of Lovecraft and Shirley Jackson at play, but the vision is ultimately Ojeda's own--delicious in how it seduces and disturbs the reader as the girls rely on horror both as entertainment and as a way of staving off the actual terrors of growing up. This is creepy good fun." --Publishers Weekly"Edgar Allan Poe meets a few of the mean girls. . . . Mother-daughter relationships slide under Ojeda's microscope, sharing space with the teacher-student dynamic and deities as objects in an exploration of power and sexuality during adolescence. . . . Every good horror story needs a victim; Ojeda's monsters and victims wear the same faces." --Kirkus"Jawbone distinguishes itself through fevered brilliance. . . . Like the strange bloom of a corpse flower, the novel evokes life, death, and a vortex of twisted beauty." --Meg Nola, Foreword Reviews, starred review"A wild, dirty, surreal, creepy narrative. . . . This novel, which explores the interstices between genres, shows what can happen when a writer digs deep into language while looking for darkness, for the unexplainable, for blood. . . . A dynamic, engrossing reading experience." --Gabino Iglesias, Southwest Review"Hits the sweet spot of novels under 300 pages. . . . And we always need more translated horror." --Sadie Hartmann, LitReactor"The horror exists in, and is generated by, a delicious but unsettling uncertainty of self and non-self whereupon realities are created and cast off. . . . Ojeda's poetic craft shines through Jawbone's prose. It's a deeply visual book in which seemingly transparent images introduced early on are lacquered over with layers of meaning as the story progresses, building a patina of dread." --Annabella Farmer, Santa Fe Reporter"Dark academy meets existential horror in this scintillating and unsettling novel of friendship, adolescence, and 'inquietude.' When a group of friends find an abandoned building, their most charismatic member slowly escalates their afternoons of scary stories and dares into a secret society of dangerous rituals and potentially deadly consequences. The characters are entrancing, the ideas are insightful, and the prose itself is thrilling." --Josh Cook, Porter Square Books"Mónica Ojeda is fearless in her approach to both themes and style. She deals with horror and desire like few others, with a beauty so extreme that it sometimes leaves you gasping. In Jawbone, an elite Catholic school becomes the stage for nightmares fueled by obsession, creepypastas, and teenagers crazed by hormones and horror movies. But in the end, the novel is about Mónica's primary concerns: sexuality, violence, and how a story about the damag
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Ojeda, Mónica
- Editorial: Ojeda, Mónica
- N° Paginas: 272
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
