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A Little Luck

Claudia Pineiro, Frances Riddle

From Shelf: Favourite books I read in 2023

A woman returns home to confront the past, a family, and the reverberations of a death that she had abandoned decades before.

From the author of Elena Knows , finalist for the 2022 International Booker Prize

20 years after a shocking accident, Mary Lohan returns to the Buenos Aires suburb she escaped in a fugue of guilt and isolation. She is not the same-not her name or voice, not even the color of her eyes. The neighborhood looks different too, but she's still the same woman and it's still the same place, and as the past erupts into view, they slowly collide.

A Little Luck is the story about the debilitating weight of lies, the messy line between bravery and cowardice, and the tragedies, big and small, that can ripple out from a single decisive event. In a place she had determined to forget forever, both anticipated encounters and unanticipated revelations show her, and us, that sometimes life is neither fate nor chance: perhaps it's nothing more than a little luck.

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
208
Publisher:
Charco Press
ISBN:
9781913867553
Published Date:
11/7/2023
Dimensions:
198mm x 129mm
Category:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

RRP: £11.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9781913867553


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