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"Chilean writer Infante’s penetrating English-language debut centers on a woman coping with the challenges of new motherhood while reflecting on her late mother. This slim and subtle work packs a stinging punch."Publishers Weekly

Motherhood is terrifying, thinks Laura, feeling small and helpless as she holds her newborn daughter. Instead of joy, she feels fear, and then anger at her own late mother for her absence. The Cracks We Bear opens as a story about new motherhood. Soon, however, it ...