{"product_id":"january-9781953861641","title":"January","description":"\u003cb\u003eA revelatory, pioneering masterpiece about the life, rape, and abortion of a 16-year-old Argentine farmworker--now in English for the very first time \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith echoes of Edith Wharton's \u003ci\u003eSummer\u003c\/i\u003e, this radical feminist novel broke the silence around abortion to reshape the way women's bodies and rights were perceived in 20th-century Argentina \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePerfect for readers of Tove Ditlevsen, Annie Ernaux's \u003ci\u003eHappening\u003c\/i\u003e, and Claudia Piñeiro's \u003ci\u003eElena Knows\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the sweltering Argentine pampas, all things bow to Nefer. Reeds nod when she digs her heels into her horse, unripe peaches snap and fall as she gallops past. Sickly-sweet air bends, churns in Nefer's throat. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNefer measures the distance between her body and the table, and feels something filling her up, turning against her. Her belly swells. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDesperate, Nefer visits a local medicine woman who is known to perform abortions but Nefer becomes too afraid to explain why she is truly there. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe attends confession at church but cannot confide in the priest. During a fierce argument with her mother, she finally blurts out her secret. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA radical feminist text, \u003ci\u003eJanuary \u003c\/i\u003ewas the first Argentine novel to represent rape from the survivor's perspective and to explore the life-threatening risks pregnancy posed, in a society where abortion was both outlawed and taboo. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith a narcotic musicality and voice scorched through with honesty, Gallardo hangs before us an experience that has been lived and ignored a thousand times over. Nefer closes her eyes. We careen to her and we see.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Archipelago Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/24\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781953861641\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Sara Gallardo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43124524646581,"sku":"9781953861641","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_5fce22de-b3bf-4b34-9237-f31b52edaafe.jpg?v=1694553780","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/january-9781953861641","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}