Binding: Hardcover
Description: Named an Indie Next pick and a Most Anticipated Book by Today. com ELLE Electric Literature Them Hip Latina LGBT Reads Debutiful L a Daily News NPR and more A searing debut about the complexities of gender power and fame told through the story of a young woman's destructive relationship with a legendary writer. It's 2015, and Tatum Vega feels that her life is finally falling into place. Living in sunny Chile with her partner Vera she spends her days surrounded by art at the museum where she works. More than anything else she loves this new life for helping her forget the decade she spent in New York City orbiting the brilliant and famous author M. Dom nguez. When a reporter calls from the US asking for an interview the careful separation Tatum has constructed between her past and present begins to crumble. Dom nguez has been accused of assault and the reporter is looking for corroboration. As Tatum is forced to reexamine the all - consuming but undefinable relationship that dominated so much of her early adulthood long - buried questions surface. What did happen between them? And why is she still struggling with the mark the relationship left on her life? Told in a dual narrative alternating between her present day and a letter from Tatum to Dom nguez recounting and reclaiming the totality of their relationship Like Happiness explores the nuances of a complicated and imbalanced relationship catalyzing a reckoning with gender celebrity memory Latinx identity and power dynamics.
Title: Like Happiness A Novel
Author(s): Villarreal - Moura Ursula
Publisher: Celadon Books
Barcode: 9781250882837
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/26/2024