Description: In the tumult of the pandemic, a writer hopes the quarantine might provide the space to finally complete a decades-old project on her travels throughout Latin America. But an unexpected disease suddenly clouds her eyes. Poetic, inventive, introspective, Between the Island and the Turtle follows the author's shifts in vision from past to present, shedding light on what it is to witness suffering and illness, ultimately questioning what literature can do in times of crisis.
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FINALIST for Foreword Indies Award for Fiction, Literary
"Writing in the immersive second person, Rosso entwines her reader with her unnamed narrator's experiences of temporal, spatial, bodily, and ideological dislocations and dissociations throughout. . . . Rosso's writing (and Anita Anand's translation) is at once concrete and abstract, decisive and searching, theoretical and cinematic." --Paisley Conrad