This Saturday, she brings us a recommendation that, in the words of the reviewer herself, has deeply affected her. The novel Contradeseo by Gloria Susana Esquivel, she said, presents the darkest side of friendship, where the characters face their own desires and miseries in a very small and quite intense environment.
The Colombian-born author, who is not only a writer but also a journalist, professor and poet, said Camilasbooks that she will not disappoint them, because through the story she presents, she is “very engaging” in a not-too-long reading that carries the text in a dynamic and fun way.
The book talks about migration in search of a rather vague future, Camilasbook explained.
Through this story, we learn the story of Silvia, a woman who breaks up with her partner and is left with an existential crisis, she has nowhere to stay and is in a country that is not hers because she is Latina and is living in the United States.
Faced with this problem, she contacts her friend Teresa, who is newly married, and offers to let her stay at her house for a day while she tries to sort out her situation; this stay begins to get longer, so they make an agreement and Silvia stays in the house in exchange for domestic service, which becomes an intricate game of desires and intense discovery.
“As the days go by, the protagonists find themselves involved in a dynamic that totally challenges the boundaries of what is work and what is sensual, and through this narrative, they somehow immerse us in an analysis of the identity of the power of sexuality, immersing us in the darkest corners of our minds,” says Camilasbooks.
To learn more about this recommendation, listen to Camilasbooks in her review this week.
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