Origins, family, and a unique worldview shape a luminous and brilliant text about beginnings in eroticism and writing
“Memory is the most treacherous affection there is,” writes Camila Sosa Villada. In this book, the author delves into the folds of remembrance, there where memory—always changing and disorderly—leaves us exposed to emotions we barely manage to control. But can we resist the siege of certain memories? she wonders. And in that search, she finds a way to survive: she does so based on the idea of betrayal and the relationship of language—the very same that she has corrupted and uses in her works—with eroticism and her own origins. In this dazzling text, Camila Sosa embraces the apparent chaos of what is recalled and transforms it into an intimate structure, made of detours, coincidences, and discoveries. Her prose, sharp and poetic, moves on the border between fiction and confession, between what is inherited and what is betrayed. A book about the ability to write from the edge, an act of risk and freedom.
