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American individualism
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Ethics of recording testimony
Ethics of translation
Gender violence
Ghosts
Global displacement
Global dystopia
Grief
Language
Latin America
Magical Realism
Medical misogyny
Memory
Metropolis
Sexual assault
State-Sanctioned violence
the Mothers of la Candelaria
Violence
Xenophobia
Product details
- ISBN 9781787706439
- Dimensions: 135 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 12 Mar 2026
- Publisher: Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A People 'Best Book of February'
A haunting, indelible novel of collective grief, resistance, and the radical, life-affirming virtue of testimony
A. is an amateur translator. Adrift and burdened by debt following a medical trauma, her nights are spent on the dance floor. There, she encounters N. Among N.’s meagre possessions, A. comes across a book about an unnamed town of disappearing boys. The book, Field Notes, documents a community of mothers who assemble to mourn their missing sons.
When a near-assault stuns A. out of her inertia, she takes off for the city where Field Notes was written in search of its author and the end of the story. But, A’s digging leads her instead to the traces of a murdered poet, and a legacy that will intersect unexpectedly and pivotally with her own life.
Poignant and profoundly humane, Mass Mothering is a story of the mutuality of grief, the shattering force of a mother’s love, and the aftershocks of violence in a globalised era.
Sarah Bruni is the author of The Night Gwen Stacy Died. A graduate of the MFA programme at Washington University in St. Louis with a master's in Latin American studies from Tulane University, she has taught English and writing classes in New York and St. Louis and volunteered as a writer-in-schools in San Francisco and Montevideo, Uruguay. Her fiction has appeared in Boston Review, and her translations have appeared in The Buenos Aires Review. She lives in Chicago with her family.
