"Renata is fourteen years old and is also 100% sure that she is happy about her mother's death: Sabina. Readers are unaware of her whims and desires, and it is precisely that unknown what keeps us immersed in this story which offers complex characters and is traced by a narrative pen that undoubtedly knows how to tell stories. This innate author narrates what someone is capable of when jealousy becomes her greatest motivation"--

"Award-winning novelist and poet Gayle Brandeis's wrenching memoir of her complicated family history and her mother's suicide Gayle Brandeis's mother disappeared just after Gayle gave birth to her youngest child. Several days later, her body was found: she had hanged herself in the utility closet of a Pasadena parking garage. In this searing, formally inventive memoir, Gayle describes the dissonance between being a new mother, a sweet-smelling infant...