Orange Wine
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- ISBN 9781964721347
- Dimensions: 139 x 209mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2025
- Publisher: Girl Friday Productions
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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While I was giving birth to Lucy, my husband, Alessandro, was lying in bed with my sister Isabel.
And thus, Ines Camargo the youngest daughter of an Italian nobleman and a Colombian poet begins to speak in a bitter, sweet voice.
Against the backdrop of early twentieth-century Colombia, where the Catholic Church exercises total control over women, Orange Wine weaves an unforgettable story of sisterhood, love, passion, and betrayal. Isolated in a society that opposes her desires, Ines struggles with her identity as a mother, artist, sister, lover, and woman. Her choices are stark: accept her duty to her family or embark on a sensuous journey of self-discovery. Each path will cost her or those she loves something dear.
Mirroring the alchemical process of turning oranges into wine, Ines must create a new life from a bitter pith, pressing sweetness from life's agonies as she struggles toward artistic freedom and feminine awakening.
Esperanza Hope Snyder was born and raised in Bogot, Colombia, and has lived in the US, Italy, and Spain. She is the author of a poetry collection, Esperanza and Hope (Sheep Meadow Press, 2018), and two plays, Lullaby for George and The Backroom, the latter of which is being adapted to film. Delicates, her cotranslation of Wendy Guerra's poetry collection (Seagull Books, 2023), was noted in the New York Times and was long listed for the 2024 National Translation Award. Esperanza has also been assistant director of Bread Loaf in Sicily and cocoordinator of the Lorca Prize. She lives in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Orange Wine was inspired by the story of her grandparents.
