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Title details for Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer by Jamie Figueroa - Available

Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer

by Jamie Figueroa
Joana Garcia
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A fableistic, "curious and dazzling" debut novel of enormous power and grace about a sister trying to hold back her brother from the edge of the abyss for fans of Jesmyn Ward and Tommy Orange (Booklist, starred review). In the tourist town of Ciudad de Tres Hermanas, in the aftermath of their mother's passing, two siblings spend a final weekend together in their childhood home. Seeing her brother, Rafa, careening toward a place of no return, Rufina devises a bet: if they can make enough money performing for privileged tourists in the plaza over the course of the weekend to afford a plane ticket out, Rafa must commit to living. If not, Rufina will make her peace with Rafa's own plan for the future, however terrifying it may be. As the siblings reckon with generational and ancestral trauma, set against the indignities of present-day prejudice, other strange hauntings begin to take place: their mother's ghost kicks her heels against the walls; Rufina's vanished child creeps into her arms at night; and above all this, watching over the siblings, a genderless, flea-bitten angel remains hell-bent on saving what can be saved.

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  • Release date

    June 1, 2021

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781696605052
      • File size: 176469 KB
      • Duration: 06:07:38

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Joana Garcia is an excellent choice for this novel about familial and ancestral trauma. She conveys the difficulties Rufina faces as she tries to keep her half-brother, Rafa, alive. Listeners are drawn into this reckoning as the two wrestle with their mother's past. Garcia maximizes the drama in each scene as ghosts and angels populate the narrative alongside the human characters. She deftly switches from character to character, capturing the richness of the prose in her performance. Garcia takes us into a world of mystery and secrets as we hang on her every word to see what happens next. She is a master storyteller who elevates the story through her performance. M.R. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

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