Drawing from everyday life in Mexico and abroad, these subtle, unsettling stories probe the boundaries between sanity and madness, life and death, safety and danger.
The first story collection from prize-winning author Fabio Morábito available in English, Mothers and Dogs features fifteen tales that show the emotional extremes in seemingly trivial details and quotidian situations: two brothers worry more about a dog locked in an apartment who hasn’t been fed than they do about their dying mother; when the lights go out on a racetrack, a man’s evening jog turns into a savage battle between runners; a daughter learns to draft business letters as an homage to her mother.
As he deftly explores feelings of loneliness and despair endemic in modern society, Morábito weaves threads of unexpected humor and lightness.
Genre: Literary Fiction
The first story collection from prize-winning author Fabio Morábito available in English, Mothers and Dogs features fifteen tales that show the emotional extremes in seemingly trivial details and quotidian situations: two brothers worry more about a dog locked in an apartment who hasn’t been fed than they do about their dying mother; when the lights go out on a racetrack, a man’s evening jog turns into a savage battle between runners; a daughter learns to draft business letters as an homage to her mother.
As he deftly explores feelings of loneliness and despair endemic in modern society, Morábito weaves threads of unexpected humor and lightness.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Praise for this book
"Morabito's stories are haunting in their loneliness, cutting in their absurdity, surprising in their hilarity. They conjure vivid urban landscapes populated by individuals weighed down by memories, landscapes that feel both familiar and oddly surreal. These stories will stay with me for a very long time." - Dur e Aziz Amna
"Morabito has a remarkable gift for capturing those moments where we're pushed outside of ourselves, beyond our comfortable routines and social scripts, suddenly in a different story than the one we thought we were living - those little lies and encounters between strangers that haunt someone for a lifetime. The results are just as often subtly, simply poignant as they are shocking and mordantly funny. A master storyteller at work." - Kim Fu
"The stories in Fabio Morabito's Mothers and Dogs, beautifully translated by Curtis Bauer, are deceptively plainspoken. That's how Morabito hooks you. The directness of the writing belies just how strange the most ordinary-seeming day can and does become. I flat-out loved this book." - Peter Orner
"Morabito has a remarkable gift for capturing those moments where we're pushed outside of ourselves, beyond our comfortable routines and social scripts, suddenly in a different story than the one we thought we were living - those little lies and encounters between strangers that haunt someone for a lifetime. The results are just as often subtly, simply poignant as they are shocking and mordantly funny. A master storyteller at work." - Kim Fu
"The stories in Fabio Morabito's Mothers and Dogs, beautifully translated by Curtis Bauer, are deceptively plainspoken. That's how Morabito hooks you. The directness of the writing belies just how strange the most ordinary-seeming day can and does become. I flat-out loved this book." - Peter Orner
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