A Little Lumpen Novelita

“An exemplary literary rebel.” —Sarah Kerr, The New York Review of Books

“[Bolaño] demonstrates . . . what is possible in fiction—which is to say, anything.” —William Deresiewicz, The New Republic

Now I’m a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime. So begins the story of Bianca, whom a car crash has overnight left an orphan and, only a teenager herself, a caregiver to her younger brother. Abandoned by social services, the siblings drop out of school, attempt to survi...