To understand , you must understand Xita Rubert. Born in Barcelona in 1989, Rubert is the daughter of the acclaimed Spanish novelist Manuel Vázquez Montalbán’s inner circle—but she has carved her own path as a fierce, original voice.
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Xita Rubert’s Los hechos de Key Biscayne is not a novel you consume; it is a novel that consumes you. On its surface, it tells the story of a teenager spending a season in the gated, sun-drenched community of Key Biscayne, Florida. But beneath the chlorine, the humid nights, and the endless glitter of the swimming pool, Rubert constructs a terrifying and exhilarating treatise on the end of childhood. To understand , you must understand Xita Rubert
("The facts of Key Biscayne are the facts of my body. My father saying the waves were my mother. The spider fish I stepped on at age seven. The sharp pain, then forgetting, then morphine at the Miami hospital. The facts are like this: they don't happen where you think, they happen on the skin.") On its surface, it tells the story of
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