Pink Slime by Fernanda Trias

Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the BartolomAc-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, and the Sor Juana InAcs de la Cruz Literature Prize. A port city is in the grips of an ecological crisis. The river has filled with toxic algae, and a deadly ?_~red wind?_T blows throughA?its streets; much of the coast has been evacuated as the wealthy migrate inland to safety, leaving theA?rest to shelter in abandoned houses as blackouts and food shortages abound. The unnamed narrator is one of those who has stayed.A?She spends her daysA?trying to disentangle herself from the two relationships that had once meant everything to her, andA?looking after theA?youngA?boyA?who?_Ts been placed in her care.A?As the world in which they moveA?becomes smaller, she reflectsA?on the collapse ofA?theA?other emotional ties in her lifeA?and the emergence of a radicalA?yet tenderA?solitude. With striking prose and vivid characters,A?the multi-award-winningA?Pink SlimeA?offers profound reflections on motherhood, marriage, and caregiving, set against the backdrop of aA?crumblingA?city.
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