Umami
By: Laia Jufresa ; translated by Sophie Hughes
Contributors: Hughes, Sophie (Sophie Elizabeth), 1986- translator
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781780748917
Subjects: Fiction
Work titles: Umami
Description: Deep in the heart of Mexico City, where five houses cluster around a sun-drenched courtyard, lives Ana, a precocious twelve-year-old who spends her days buried in Agatha Christie novels to forget the mysterious death of her little sister years earlier. Over the summer she decides to plant a milpa in her backyard, and as she digs the ground and plants her seeds, her neighbors in turn delve into their past. The ripple effects of grief, childlessness, illness and displacement saturate their stories, secrets seep out and questions emerge--Who was my wife? Why did my Mom leave? Can I turn back the clock? And how could a girl who knew how to swim drown?
Notes: Translation from Spanish of Umami.