Incurables: Relatos de dolencias y males

The stories in this collection revolve around the world of diseases, which is also that of ailments, disabilities, pain, illnesses. There are in incurable physical and soul diseases, impossible to trace. Childhood traumas, family conflicts that mark us forever. Ailments of the body and mind. Illnesses of a certain age. The problem of being different and leaving the patterns of normality. Surgical procedures, forced treatments. Birth defects. Amputations. And also deterioration, wear, disorders and singularities that do not fit easily in the same label. This volume does not lack love sickness with its flaws and open wounds. Nor are there any missing prostheses, real or metaphorical, with which some of us learn to face life. If emigrating always produces some kind of injury, these twenty stories show not only a varied set of ailments and ills recreated by a group of Latin American immigrants that oscillate between belonging and uprooting in the United States, but also the capacity of literature to portray symbolic violence, long-lasting trauma, non-healing wounds. And the gestures, the expressive silences, the elusive glances that would like, deep down and on the surface, that the world was a little better.