98 Seconds Without a Shadow

Genoveva is sixteen. She goes to a Catholic girls’ school and lives, as she puts it, in the Ass End of the World – a remote town in deep Latin America, where modernization arrives hand-in-hand with drug trafficking. Between a mother lost in delusional dreams and a father clinging to the ruins of long-faded Trotskyism, Genoveva narrates her world with a voice that’s raw, contradictory, fearless, and startlingly innocent.She doesn’t like what she sees. She doesn’t like what she touches. She d...