{"product_id":"restoration-9781917260022","title":"Restoration","description":"\u003cp\u003ePropelled by female desire, shaped by the violence of the male gaze, and inspired by the endless vitality of old stories remade anew, \u003cem\u003eRestoration\u003c\/em\u003e takes on Bluebeard, Salvador Elizondo, Juan Rulfo, Angela Carter, Octavio Paz, Mariana Enriquez, and Amparo Dávila to produce a novel of obsession, reclamation, and romance gone very, very wrong.Jasmina has been hired by her maybe-boyfriend to restore his family home, a grubby, abandoned time capsule where a great artist once lived. As she moves from room to room - scrubbing, scraping, plastering over cracks - the stories inhabiting them awaken, and the lives of the women who came before her begin to overlap with her own. Who is the woman in the photograph? And what secrets linger in that last locked room?\u003cem\u003eRestoration\u003c\/em\u003e is a ghost story with porous borders, between Jasmina and these forgotten women, between the novel and us. And the questions Barrera asks may be about what's behind our own barred door.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAve Barrera\u003c\/strong\u003e (Guadalajara, Mexico, 1980) is a writer and editor. Her first novel, \u003cem\u003ePuertas demasiado pequeñas\u003c\/em\u003e (2016) won the Sergio Galindo Award and was published by Charco Press under the title \u003cem\u003eThe Forgery\u003c\/em\u003e (2022). Her second novel, \u003cem\u003eRestoration, \u003c\/em\u003e won the 2018 Lipp Prize. Ave has also published short stories and essays in anthologies and electronic media. Since 2019 she coordinates the Vindictas Collection for the National University of Mexico. In 2023 she received a grant from the Kislak Foundation for a writing residency at the University of Florida, USA. Her new novel is \u003cem\u003eNotas desde el interior de la ballena\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eNotes from Inside the Whale\u003c\/em\u003e ).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEllen Jones\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer, editor, and translator from Spanish. Her recent translations include \u003cem\u003eBeyond Mestizaje: Contemporary Debates on Race in Mexico\u003c\/em\u003e edited by Tania Islas Weinstein and Milena Ang (2024), \u003cem\u003eCubanthropy\u003c\/em\u003e by Iván de la Nuez (2023) and \u003cem\u003eThe Remains\u003c\/em\u003e by Margo Glantz (shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2023). Her monograph, \u003cem\u003eLiterature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas\u003c\/em\u003e is published by Columbia University Press (2022). Her short fiction has appeared in \u003cem\u003eLitro\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eMagazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSlug\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe London Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobin Myers\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet, translator, essayist, and 2023 NEA Translation Fellow. Recent translations include \u003cem\u003eWhat Comes Back\u003c\/em\u003e by Javier Peñalosa M.; \u003cem\u003eThe Brush\u003c\/em\u003e by Eliana Hernández-Pachón; and \u003cem\u003eA Whale is a Country\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eIn Vitro, \u003c\/em\u003e both by Isabel Zapata. Her poems have appeared in \u003cem\u003eBest American Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eYale Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Drift\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePoetry London, \u003c\/em\u003e and elsewhere; her essays, in \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWords Without Borders\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eLatin American Literature Today\u003c\/em\u003e . \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Charco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51572504494354,"sku":"9781917260022","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_97412eba-997c-4f04-9879-b3d0d86f8a03.jpg?v=1755864552","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/restoration-9781917260022","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}