THIRST BY MARINA YUSZCZUR

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This gripping tale is full of queer representation and lush, lyrical passages, all while exploring death with an air of nihilismVampires are making a comeback, and Yuszczuk is spearheading their revival with this bloody novel.The New York Times Book Review

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting yearning that will not let them rest. A breakout, genre-blurring novel from one of the most exciting new voices of Latin Americas feminist Gothic.

It is the twilight of Europes bloody bacchanals, of murder and feasting without end. In the nineteenth century, a vampire arrives from Europe to the coast of Buenos Aires and, for the second time in her life, watches as villages transform into a cosmopolitan city, one that will soon be ravaged by yellow fever. She must adapt, intermingle with humans, and be discreet.

In present-day Buenos Aires, a woman finds herself at an impasse as she grapples with her mother’s terminal illnessand her own relationship with motherhood. When she first encounters the vampire in a cemetery, something ignites within the two womenand they cross a threshold from which theres no turning back.

With echoes of Mary ShelleysFrankensteinand written in the vein of feminist Gothic writers like Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier, and Carmen Maria Machado,Thirstplays with the boundaries of genre while exploring the limits of female agency, the consuming power of desire, and the fragile vitality of even the most immortal of creatures.

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