Nancy by Bruno Lloret, translated by Ellen Jones [in Shelf Awareness]
19 Apr, by Adult Readers, Chilean, Fiction, Repost, South American, Translation
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*STARRED REVIEW In Chilean author Bruno Lloret's inventively sly debut novel, Nancy, the narrative might seem relatively transparent: titular Nancy approaches death by cancer and recalls her happy childhood, her dangerous adolescence, her brother's disappearance, her mother's abandonment, her father's Mormon conversion, her husband's gruesome death....