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On a long, near-silent drive with his father, a young man surveys the “worn-out puzzle” of his broken family.
A long drive across Chile’s Atacama desert, traversing “the worn-out puzzle” of a broken family—a young man’s corrosive intimacy with his mother, the obtrusive cheer of his absentee father, his uncle’s unexplained death. Camanchaca is a low fog pushing in from the sea, its moisture sustaining near-barren landscape. Sometimes, the silences are what bind us.
Megan McDowell
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Megan McDowell is a translator from the United States of America, and has collaborated with authors including Alejandro Zambra, Mariana Enriquez, and Samanta Schweblin. Her translations have won the National Book Award for Translated Fiction, and have been nominated for the International Booker Prize and the Kirkus Prize. She was the recipient of the 2020 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She currently resides in Chile.
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