The Apartment by Ana Menéndez EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Ana Menéndez
- Language: English
- Genre: Ghost Thrillers
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- Size: 2 MB
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Praise for The Apartment
“A dazzling inquiry into the disquietudes of time and place, of past and
present, and the global exiles who inhabit the realms in between.
Menéndez’s exquisitely wrought stories—emanating from the life span of
one modest Miami apartment—offer us no less than the world. A masterful,
poetic achievement.”
—Cristina García, author of Dreaming in Cuban
“Stunning in its intimate yet vast portrayal of humanity, The Apartment
tenderly summons the power of our bonds to place and community, evoking
the grace of human connections that save us time and time again. A balm
for our deeply divided times.”
—Richard Blanco, presidential inaugural poet, author of The Prince of Los
Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood
“Ana Menéndez gives us an intimate, picturesque tale that grows into a
mysterious and supernatural journey through time as the conflicted
narrators become ghosts and echoes of each other. Striking and haunting,
this powerful novel battles between gut-wrenchingly lonely and harrowing
moments in America and the multifaceted, resilient, and radically caring
community that has blossomed against them. It’s a reminder that we breathe
new air everyday, that we are always connected to each other, that we
survive when we stick together.”
—Xochitl Gonzalez, author of Olga Dies Dreaming
“Menéndez writes from the gut, expertly crafting the tensions and bitterness
of misplacement, the suffocation of place. She also writes from the spleen;
Menéndez’s acerbic wit finds its way interstitially through the pages of this
book, finding another gear for an already beautiful prose. The array of
characters, all of whom have jumped out of a frying pan and into a fire, and
specifically, into apartment 2B of the Helena, are escaping a past that won’t
let them be. They’re immigrants and refugees whose hopelessness at times
obfuscates their political realities: here isn’t always better than there. At the
center of this book, Menéndez has constructed a home, a building, a city;
she’s also drawn a line—possibly a circle—that stretches from imperialism
to mental health.”
—Alejandro Varela, author of The People Who Report More Stress
“Ingenious in its construction, intimate in its storytelling, and illuminating
in its insights, The Apartment is both an unforgettable reading experience
and a fascinating character in itself: like the mysterious stranger next door
whose history, hopes, longings, secrets, and surprises thrillingly reveal
themselves over time.”
—Christopher Castellani, author of Leading Men
“Ana Menéndez should be donned the poet laureate of South Beach—not
the South Beach of Versace mansions and trendy nightclubs but a more
human place where wanderers seek the kind of quotidian security that often
proves so elusive for us all. The Apartment is a jewel of a novel that dares
question the very notion of what we consider home—a stunning meditation
on the ghosts we leave behind and the phantoms that are perennially our
companions in exile”
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