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A Year in Reading: Ingrid Rojas Contreras

2018 has been politically dismal, but buoyant on the literary front, and the confluence of these two things have made this a year in slow reading for me. During the most difficult time in my life, when I left my home country 20 years ago, I only had one short story collection with me. It was a collection of short stories. I read it over and over, especially the short story “La autopista del sur.” I found solace in reading the same plot, but

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