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Guadalupe Nettel. The Body Where I Was Born. J. T. Lichtenstein, tr. New York. Seven Stories Press. 2015. 208 pages.
"We perpetuate unto the newest generation the neuroses of our forbearers, wounds we keep inflicting on ourselves like a second layer of genetic inscription."
In The Body Where I Was Born, 2016 Neustadt Prize nominee Guadalupe Nettel describes the history of a young girl with an abnormality in her eye. This abnormality is the obsession of her mother, who adamantly insists on fixing her daughter. Nettel...