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Why Did You Come Back Every Summer

✍ Scribed by Belén López Peiró

Publisher
Charco Press
Year
2023
Tongue
English
Category
Fiction
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✦ Synopsis

A fractured account of family abuse, secrets, and the cost of pursuing the truth.

In the most private spaces, the most intimate betrayals occur. BelΓ©n LΓ³pez PeirΓ³ places us squarely in the tenderest of timesβ€”young teenagehood, in a home about to be ruptured by sexual assault. In this home, for this young woman, your assailant is your uncle, and also a police commissioner. The people who shelter you will reject you: your mother is his sister-in-law, your beloved aunt his wife and your cousin and friend his daughter. And the truth of what happened will depend entirely on you.Β 

Why Did You Come Back Every Summer is a document of uncertainty, self-doubt, and the appearance of progress when there is none. A chorus of voices interrupt and overtake each other; interviews and reports are filed. The truth will be heard but how and by whom? Loyalties will shift and slip. And certain questions have no easy answers. What do you owe to your family? What do...

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Translated from the French by Sandra Smith