A working woman
By: Elvira Navarro ; translated by Christina MacSweeney
Contributors: MacSweeney, Christina, translator
Publisher: Two Lines Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781931883658
Subjects: Fiction; Friendship; Psychology; Women
Work titles: Trabajadora
Description: An ambitious tale of feminine friendship, madness, a radically changing city, and the vulnerability that makes us divulge our most shameful secrets. It begins as Elisa transcribes the chaotic testimony of her roommate Susana, acting as part-therapist, part-confessor as Susana reveals the gripping account of her strange sexual urges and the one man who can satisfy them. But is Susana telling the truth? And what to make of the story that follows, where Elisa considers her own life failures, blending her literary ambitions with her deep need for catharsis? And then, one last surprise makes us question everything we have just read.
Notes: Originally published as La trabajadora by Elvira Navarro, ©2014