A Rainmaker Translation Grant Winner from the Black Mountain Institute: _Senselessness_ , acclaimed Salvadoran author Horacio Castallanos Moya's astounding debut in English, explores horror with hilarity and electrifying panache.A boozing, sex-obsessed writer finds himself employed by the Catholic C
Senseless
โ Scribed by Anna Lickley
- Publisher
- Unbound
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 112 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
Beth's partner, Dan, inexplicably vanishes from her life and nine years later she is still struggling. In the intervening years, she has learnt British Sign Language (BSL) and got what she thought would be her dream job, supporting deaf students in college. However, she finds she still feels dissatisfied with just about everything: from working life to sex life, domestic life to social life, it's as if the traumas of her past will forever mar her future.
Through her work, Beth meets a group of strong-minded, pragmatists who show her how they've adapted to challenges of having a disability.
Is Dan's disappearance the primary source of Beth's sadness? Can her new friends help to shift her perspective on dealing with life? Will learning BSL prove to be significant after all? And what really happened to Dan? The answers may be quite unexpected.
The themes and characters of Senseless are moulded by the challenges of deafness and disability but the book is not...
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