NancyOne of the most original books of the year Natalia Barbelagua, Revista Intemperie In a small city perched between the Pacific Ocean and the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, a dying woman relives her childhood and adolescence in vivid detail. In the trance of her sickness, she recalls her reactions to the breakup of her family, the disappearance of her brother, the defection of her mother, and her father's conversion to Mormonism. These snapshots