{"id":48720,"date":"2021-10-25T11:12:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T15:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=48720"},"modified":"2021-10-15T23:31:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T03:31:58","slug":"home-reading-service-by-fabio-morabito-translated-by-curtis-bauer-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/home-reading-service-by-fabio-morabito-translated-by-curtis-bauer-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Reading Service by Fabio Mor\u00e1bito, translated by Curtis Bauer [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-48727\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/10\/Home-Reading-Service-Fabio-Morabito-BookDragon-524x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/10\/Home-Reading-Service-Fabio-Morabito-BookDragon-524x800.jpg 524w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/10\/Home-Reading-Service-Fabio-Morabito-BookDragon.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/>Poet, essayist, and fiction writer Fabio Mor\u00e1bito\u2019s latest novel arrives stateside with the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, Mexico\u2019s highest literary honor. Egypt-born, Italy-raised, Mexico-domiciled since 15, Mor\u00e1bito is polyphonic; American poet and professor Curtis Bauer adroitly enables English access here.<\/p>\n<p>Literacy, fluency, and interactive engagement with words loom throughout the novel, adding multi-layered density to what might initially seem to be a light narrative. Thirtysomething Eduardo lives with his cancer-ridden father and manages the family furniture store in the City of Eternal Spring, Cuernevaca, its former lushness overshadowed by organized crime. He\u2019s done something wrong \u2013 a never-revealed \u201caccident\u201d \u2013 and is sentenced to a year of community service.<\/p>\n<p>Because Father Clark knows the mayor personally, Eduardo avoids cleaning toilets, instead reading books, all foreign and in translation, to the elderly and infirm in their homes: Dostoyevsky for the Jim\u00e9nez brothers, Verne for three generations of the deaf Vigil family, Dino Buzzati for soporific Colonel Atarriaga, Daphne du Maurier for mezzo-soprano Marg\u00f3 Benitez, who uses a wheelchair.<\/p>\n<p>Exposed for reciting without meaning, Eduardo discovers his father\u2019s favorite poet, Mexican Isabel Fraire. Sharing Fraire will save all their (reading) lives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Home-Reading-Service-\/pid=9747696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Fction&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, October 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2021 (United States)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poet, essayist, and fiction writer Fabio Mor\u00e1bito\u2019s latest novel arrives stateside with the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, Mexico\u2019s highest literary honor. Egypt-born, Italy-raised, Mexico-domiciled since 15, Mor\u00e1bito is polyphonic; American poet and professor Curtis Bauer adroitly enables English access here. 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