A Simple Story by Leila Guerriero

Author:Leila Guerriero
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2016-12-29T17:11:05+00:00

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An ordinary man raised by ordinary parents who fought to have a better life in ordinary poverty is no more extraordinary than many from poor families. Are we interested in reading stories about people like Rodolfo? People who believe that family is important, that goodness and God exist? Are we interested in poverty when it’s not extreme, when it doesn’t involve violence, when it’s free from the brutality that we love to see it — read it — dressed in?

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At age five, he asked why his last name was González when his siblings’ last name was Carabajal. Rubén and María Luisa explained that his father lived with his four older siblings, far away. Rodolfo has always had a distant relationship with the man. He’d recently traveled to General Pico, a city in La Pampa, to visit his other siblings. His father was there and invited him to dinner. When they’d finished eating and were clearing the plates, Rodolfo felt the urge to hug him. He was about to do it when he told himself no. Since then he hasn’t felt the urge again: he doesn’t let it happen.

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