January by Sara Gallardo (Translated from the Spanish by Frances Riddle & Maureen Shaughnessy)

** ONE of THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 **“Elegant and forceful – I couldn’t put it down.”  – Catherine Lacey, author of Biography of XA pioneering, revelatory masterpiece of modern literature that conjures the life of 16-year-old girl living on the Argentine pampas — now in English for the very first timeWith echoes of Edith Wharton’s Summer, this radical feminist novel broke the silence around abortion to reshape the way women’s bodies and rights were perceived in 20th-century ArgentinaPerfect for readers of Tove Ditlevsen, Annie Ernaux’s Happening, and Claudia Piñeiro’s Elena KnowsIn 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. Nefer measures the distance between her body and the table, and feels something filling her up, turning against her. Her belly swells.Desperate, Nefer visits a local medicine woman who is kn