num_pages: 256
description: ... as I poured my father's ashes into a big Ziploc bag, a little of myblood dripped in. I thought about how each cell has all of you fully inscribed init, so that if I left those drops in there, it would be as if I were already deadtoo. I plunged in then, to try and get myself out, but it was all so sticky that Ihad to give up; when I pulled out my hand, parts of my father were stuck all overit...--from Twin Time Witty, sarcastic, and sensuous, Twin Time: or, how deathbefell 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 questthat takes her into a forest where she's confronted by--among other beings--a bandof Nordic men, her Chinese doppelganger, a lascivious giant, and a pack of feralchildren. Along the way Mona recounts her parents' past as she imagines it, aromantic tale of love and rescue set in a fabulist, idealized Mexico--a dreamy placethat only vaguely resembles the harsh quotidian realities of the 1960s Mexico Cityher parents inhabited. When Mona finds her brother at last, she learns that he grewup in London with their mother--who had supposedly (or so Mona had been told) diedin childbirth--and her parents' story is thrown into further disarray. By the end ofthe journey, all Mona's received ideas of home, motherhood, magic realism, andmiscegenation have been overturned.Veronica Gonzalez is the coeditor of Juncture: 25Very Good Stories and 12 Excellent Drawings and the founder of rockypoint Press, aseries of artist-writer collaborations produced in association with 1301PE Gallery.Twin Time is her first novel.
language: English
title: twin time: or, how death befell me (Semiotext
titlecomplete: twin time: or, how death befell me (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)
ratings_count: 31
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Premio Aztlán Literary Prize
publisher: Semiotext(e)