Punctured Diary

Two intimate, perceptive novellas about learning to see anew from a fresh voice in Latin American fiction

In Punctured Diary, Mercedes Halfon finely crafts two stories, each following a woman as she navigates a personal crisis and attempts to reorient herself, both physically and psychologically, in a changing world. The title novella is told through the journal entries of a young Argentine writer who follows her lover to Berlin—and through a summer of discontent—finding herself only after s...