Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel

Hello! For this meet up we are reading Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel

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Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize
Still Born, Guadalupe Nettel's fourth novel, explores one of life's most consequential decisions - whether or not to have children - with her signature charm and intelligence.
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Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura has taken the drastic decision to be sterilized, but as time goes by Alina becomes drawn to the idea of becoming a mother.
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A profound novel about motherhood, friendship, and the power of community from “one of the leading lights in contemporary Latin American literature” (Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive).
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Guadalupe Nettel is the author of four international-award winning novels: El huésped , The Body Where I was Born, After the Winter, and Still Born; and three collections of short stories. She currently lives in Mexico City where she's the director of the magazine Revista de la Universidad de México.
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Join us for some interesting discussions around this topic and a few drinks in between! x