Loop - Brenda Lozano (discounted)

Loop by Brenda Lozano, translated by Annie McDermott / ISBN 9781916465640 / 184-page paperback with flaps from Charco Press (Edinburgh) / new but discounted copy due to light wear *** Winner PEN Translates Award (UK) "A glorious tapestry of ideas." ―The Guardian "In this novel, the stream of consciousness is more like a whirlpool." ―New York Times Recovering from an unspecified accident, the narrator of Loop finds herself in waiting rooms of different kinds: airport departure lounges, doctors’ surgeries, and above all at home, awaiting the return of her boyfriend, who has travelled to Spain following the death of his mother. Loop is a love story told from the perspective of a contemporary Penelope who, instead of weaving and unravelling her shroud, writes and erases her thoughts in her ‘ideal’ notebook. At once, funny and thought-provoking, her thoughts range from her stationery preferences to the different scales on which life is lived, while a cast of unlikely characters cross the pa