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- 2023
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- 9781949641530
- Book Title
- Cross-Stitch
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- 8in
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- Two Lines Press
- Publication Year
- 2023
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Fiction
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- Contemporary Women, Coming of Age
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- 5in
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- 12.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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A debut novel of female friendship and coming-of-age from Jazmina Barrera, acclaimed author of Linea Nigra and On Lighthouses , translated by Christina MacSweeney. It was meant to be the trip of a lifetime. Mila, Citlali, and Dalia, childhood friends now college aged, leave Mexico City for the London of The Clash and the Paris of Courbet. They anticipate the cafés and crushes, but not the early signs that they are each steadily, inevitably changing. That feels like forever ago. Mila, now a writer and a new mother, has just published a book on needlecraft--an art form so long dismissed as "women's work." But after learning Citlali has drowned, Mila begins to sift through her old scrapbooks, reflecting on their shared youth for the first time as a new wife and mother. What has come of all the nights the three friends spent embroidering together in silence? Did she miss the signs that Citlali needed help?
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Two Lines Press
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1949641538
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9781949641530
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Book Title
Cross-Stitch
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Hardcover
Language
English
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Contemporary Women, Coming of Age
Publication Year
2023
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Fiction
Number of Pages
224 Pages
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Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
12.7 Oz
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Reviews
One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2023 ( The Millions ) "Jazmina Barrera's Cross Stitch is a beautifully woven tale of friendship, coming of age, womanhood, and loss that never shies away from the complexity of grief--all while honoring the joy that is to be found in life. Masterfully written, and with a fascinating history of the art of needlework stitched throughout, here is a delicate novel in which embroidery becomes a breathtaking language unto itself. Christina MacSweeney perfectly captures Jazmina Barrera's poetic voice in this incredibly precise and moving translation." --Isaac Fitzgerald, author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional "Barrera embroiders a tender story of friendship and loss, intricately weaving the complexities of womanhood, self-discovery, and the human experiences that bind us." --Reyna Grande, author of A Ballad of Love and Glory "Never has a novel about friendship rung truer to me than this one. This is literary art at its most insightful, most tender, most wise. Cross-Stitch is a soft-spoken, hyper-articulate masterpiece. " --John Wray, author of Gone to the Wolves Praise for Jazmina Barrera " Linea Nigra is a beautiful and lucid essay about the journey across motherhood seasons - pregnancy, childbirth and first months of parenting. Far from mythologizing motherhood as an idealized state, Linea Nigra sheds light on the complex and contradictory nature of gestation: a state crossed by terrors, but also by hopes and love; a biological and spiritual mystery that concerns all human beings, as individuals and as a society." --Fernanda Melchor, The Guardian, on Linea Nigra "A strange, slim, hybrid book...disarmingly fresh and provocative....[Barrera's] is a vision of art as feminine, never truly original or new, but a cycle: art as birth and death; bodies decomposing in the dirt, the roots 'the tree of our flesh.'" --Christine Henneberg, New York Review of Books, on Linea Nigra "Clear-eyed and poetic...[A] generous, openhearted project inviting readers to discover what is often hidden away, unseen." -- Los Angeles Review of Books on Linea Nigra "Eminently worthy of acclaim." --Vogue (The Best Books of 2022 So Far) on Linea Nigra "Lighthouses, the 'frontier between civilization and nature,' are places of solitude. But they are also signals of shore and home. This book is a light at the end of the tunnel, showing us places we'll see and things we'll do when we can go out again." --The Paris Review on On Lighthouses "Precise and erudite, Barrera's writing is as alluring and arresting as the landscapes and stories it conveys. Each piece is crafted with care, imbued with Barrera's poignant critical sense and her perspicacious ability to unravel the different levels of affect, historicity, and magnificence that constitute the everyday life of each lighthouse." --Ignacio M. Sánchez, Los Angeles Review of Books on On Lighthouses "A slim, idiosyncratic history of these structures and their appearances in literature--from Robert Louis Stevenson, whose father and grandfather engineered them, to Virginia Woolf, to Ray Bradbury--the book allows the reader flashes of Barrera's emotional life amid the accumulated detail." --Harper's on On Lighthouses, One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2023 ( The Millions ) One of the Best Books of the 2023 So Far (Chicago Review of Books) "Needlework is often depicted as a peaceful activity: feminine, unthreatening, decorative. Yet in Jazmina Barrera''s understated and lovely debut novel, Cross-Stitch , translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney, embroidery is revealed to be as quietly brutal as young womanhood, despite the shroud of innocence society often places over both." -- The New York Times "Reflections on youth, the passage of time, and the meaning of female friendship....[Jazmina Barrera] blend[s] Sally Rooney-esque interpersonal chaos with a clean, graceful prose style." --Vogue "Stitches, secrets, shame: When Jazmina Barrera''s first novel translated into English, Cross-Stitch, hits shelves in November, read it. Barrera stitches a female coming-of-age story together with a feminist history and theory of embroidery, and it consumed my entire day." --Elizabeth McNeill, Chicago Review of Books "A quilt of language--distinct fragments stitched together to form a multiplicitous whole--that juxtaposes teenage memories, adult grief, and researched explorations of sewing and embroidery...Everything there is to admire in Barrera''s essays can be found, slightly transformed, in this first novel." --Full Stop "Throughout Cross-Stitch , Barrera weaves, braids and composes the story of the trio''s friendship into a plot so convincing and emotionally intelligent that readers may mistake it for a memoir, while seamlessly incorporating intriguing tidbits about the history of embroidery...Barrera''s prose is insightful and precise, and MacSweeney''s translation conveys a natural, conversational rhythm." --BookPage "A feminist, intertextual gem reminiscent of Still Born and A Ghost in the Throat, Cross-Stitch considers friendship and grief alongside women''s work, musing on its serious themes with nimble grace." --Shelf Awareness "The multi-talented Barrera, author of the memoir Linea Nigra (2022), turns to fiction in this introspective translation from the original Spanish... Lovers of language and subtle character development will be enthralled." -- Booklist "The novel evokes the awkward process of growing up, chronicling adolescence and the transition into adulthood vividly and frankly...a somber book about the formative, irreplicable experiences shared between friends and the agony and bewilderment of loss." --Kirkus Reviews "Jazmina Barrera''s Cross-Stitch is a beautifully woven tale of friendship, coming of age, womanhood, and loss that never shies away from the complexity of grief--all while honoring the joy that is to be found in life. Masterfully written, and with a fascinating history of the art of needlework stitched throughout, here is a delicate novel in which embroidery becomes a breathtaking language unto itself. Christina MacSweeney perfectly captures Jazmina Barrera''s poetic voice in this incredibly precise and moving translation." --Isaac Fitzgerald, author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts "Jazmina Barrera has written an astonishing book, one that illuminates the mysterious, intricate, and eternal nature of female friendship. Through prose that never fails to find the profound in the particular, Barrera''s Cross-Stitch takes readers on a journey through the little private universes people make through relation to one another." --Chloé Cooper Jones, author of Easy Beauty "Barrera embroiders a tender story of friendship and loss, intricately weaving the complexities of womanhood, self-discovery, and the human experiences that bind us." --Reyna Grande, author of A Ballad of Love and Glory "Never has a novel about friendship rung truer to me than this one. This is literary art at its most insightful, most tender, most wise. Cross-Stitch is a soft-spoken, hyper-articulate masterpiece. " --John Wray, author of Gone to the Wolves, One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2023 ( The Millions ) One of the Best Books of the 2023 So Far (Chicago Review of Books) A Publishers Lunch Buzz Book Selection for 2023 "Jazmina Barrera's Cross Stitch is a beautifully woven tale of friendship, coming of age, womanhood, and loss that never shies away from the complexity of grief--all while honoring the joy that is to be found in life. Masterfully written, and with a fascinating history of the art of needlework stitched throughout, here is a delicate novel in which embroidery becomes a breathtaking language unto itself. Christina MacSweeney perfectly captures Jazmina Barrera's poetic voice in this incredibly precise and moving translation." --Isaac Fitzgerald, author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional "Barrera embroiders a tender story of friendship and loss, intricately weaving the complexities of womanhood, self-discovery, and the human experiences that bind us." --Reyna Grande, author of A Ballad of Love and Glory "Never has a novel about friendship rung truer to me than this one. This is literary art at its most insightful, most tender, most wise. Cross-Stitch is a soft-spoken, hyper-articulate masterpiece. " --John Wray, author of Gone to the Wolves Praise for Jazmina Barrera " Linea Nigra is a beautiful and lucid essay about the journey across motherhood seasons - pregnancy, childbirth and first months of parenting. Far from mythologizing motherhood as an idealized state, Linea Nigra sheds light on the complex and contradictory nature of gestation: a state crossed by terrors, but also by hopes and love; a biological and spiritual mystery that concerns all human beings, as individuals and as a society." --Fernanda Melchor, The Guardian, on Linea Nigra "A strange, slim, hybrid book...disarmingly fresh and provocative....[Barrera's] is a vision of art as feminine, never truly original or new, but a cycle: art as birth and death; bodies decomposing in the dirt, the roots 'the tree of our flesh.'" --Christine Henneberg, New York Review of Books, on Linea Nigra "Clear-eyed and poetic...[A] generous, openhearted project inviting readers to discover what is often hidden away, unseen." -- Los Angeles Review of Books on Linea Nigra "Eminently worthy of acclaim." --Vogue (The Best Books of 2022 So Far) on Linea Nigra "Lighthouses, the 'frontier between civilization and nature,' are places of solitude. But they are also signals of shore and home. This book is a light at the end of the tunnel, showing us places we'll see and things we'll do when we can go out again." --The Paris Review on On Lighthouses "Precise and erudite, Barrera's writing is as alluring and arresting as the landscapes and stories it conveys. Each piece is crafted with care, imbued with Barrera's poignant critical sense and her perspicacious ability to unravel the different levels of affect, historicity, and magnificence that constitute the everyday life of each lighthouse." --Ignacio M. Sánchez, Los Angeles Review of Books on On Lighthouses "A slim, idiosyncratic history of these structures and their appearances in literature--from Robert Louis Stevenson, whose father and grandfather engineered them, to Virginia Woolf, to Ray Bradbury--the book allows the reader flashes of Barrera's emotional life amid the accumulated detail." --Harper's on On Lighthouses, Praise for Jazmina Barrera " Linea Nigra is a beautiful and lucid essay about the journey across motherhood seasons - pregnancy, childbirth and first months of parenting. Far from mythologizing motherhood as an idealized state, Linea Nigra sheds light on the complex and contradictory nature of gestation: a state crossed by terrors, but also by hopes and love; a biological and spiritual mystery that concerns all human beings, as individuals and as a society." --Fernanda Melchor, The Guardian, on Linea Nigra "A strange, slim, hybrid book...disarmingly fresh and provocative....[Barrera's] is a vision of art as feminine, never truly original or new, but a cycle: art as birth and death; bodies decomposing in the dirt, the roots 'the tree of our flesh.'" --Christine Henneberg, New York Review of Books, on Linea Nigra "Clear-eyed and poetic...[A] generous, openhearted project inviting readers to discover what is often hidden away, unseen." -- Los Angeles Review of Books on Linea Nigra "Eminently worthy of acclaim." --Vogue (The Best Books of 2022 So Far) on Linea Nigra "Lighthouses, the 'frontier between civilization and nature,' are places of solitude. But they are also signals of shore and home. This book is a light at the end of the tunnel, showing us places we'll see and things we'll do when we can go out again." --The Paris Review on On Lighthouses "Precise and erudite, Barrera's writing is as alluring and arresting as the landscapes and stories it conveys. Each piece is crafted with care, imbued with Barrera's poignant critical sense and her perspicacious ability to unravel the different levels of affect, historicity, and magnificence that constitute the everyday life of each lighthouse." --Ignacio M. Sánchez, Los Angeles Review of Books on On Lighthouses "A slim, idiosyncratic history of these structures and their appearances in literature--from Robert Louis Stevenson, whose father and grandfather engineered them, to Virginia Woolf, to Ray Bradbury--the book allows the reader flashes of Barrera's emotional life amid the accumulated detail." --Harper's on On Lighthouses, One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2023 ( The Millions ) "Jazmina Barrera's Cross Stitch is a beautifully woven tale of friendship, coming of age, womanhood, and loss that never shies away from the complexity of grief--all while honoring the joy that is to be found in life. Masterfully written, and with a fascinating history of the art of needlework stitched throughout, here is a delicate novel in which embroidery becomes a breathtaking language unto itself. Christina MacSweeney perfectly captures Jazmina Barrera's poetic voice in this incredibly precise and moving translation." --Isaac Fitzgerald, author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional "Never has a novel about friendship rung truer to me than this one. This is literary art at its most insightful, most tender, most wise. Cross-Stitch is a soft-spoken, hyper-articulate masterpiece. " --John Wray, author of Gone to the Wolves Praise for Jazmina Barrera " Linea Nigra is a beautiful and lucid essay about the journey across motherhood seasons - pregnancy, childbirth and first months of parenting. Far from mythologizing motherhood as an idealized state, Linea Nigra sheds light on the complex and contradictory nature of gestation: a state crossed by terrors, but also by hopes and love; a biological and spiritual mystery that concerns all human beings, as individuals and as a society." --Fernanda Melchor, The Guardian, on Linea Nigra "A strange, slim, hybrid book...disarmingly fresh and provocative....[Barrera's] is a vision of art as feminine, never truly original or new, but a cycle: art as birth and death; bodies decomposing in the dirt, the roots 'the tree of our flesh.'" --Christine Henneberg, New York Review of Books, on Linea Nigra "Clear-eyed and poetic...[A] generous, openhearted project inviting readers to discover what is often hidden away, unseen." -- Los Angeles Review of Books on Linea Nigra "Eminently worthy of acclaim." --Vogue (The Best Books of 2022 So Far) on Linea Nigra "Lighthouses, the 'frontier between civilization and nature,' are places of solitude. But they are also signals of shore and home. This book is a light at the end of the tunnel, showing us places we'll see and things we'll do when we can go out again." --The Paris Review on On Lighthouses "Precise and erudite, Barrera's writing is as alluring and arresting as the landscapes and stories it conveys. Each piece is crafted with care, imbued with Barrera's poignant critical sense and her perspicacious ability to unravel the different levels of affect, historicity, and magnificence that constitute the everyday life of each lighthouse." --Ignacio M. Sánchez, Los Angeles Review of Books on On Lighthouses "A slim, idiosyncratic history of these structures and their appearances in literature--from Robert Louis Stevenson, whose father and grandfather engineered them, to Virginia Woolf, to Ray Bradbury--the book allows the reader flashes of Barrera's emotional life amid the accumulated detail." --Harper's on On Lighthouses, One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2023 ( The Millions ) One of the Best Books of the 2023 So Far (Chicago Review of Books) A Publishers Lunch Buzz Book Selection for 2023 "Reflections on youth, the passage of time, and the meaning of female friendship....[Jazmina Barrera] blend[s] Sally Rooney-esque interpersonal chaos with a clean, graceful prose style." --Vogue "Stitches, secrets, shame: When Jazmina Barrera''s first novel translated into English, Cross-Stitch, hits shelves in November, read it. Barrera stitches a female coming-of-age story together with a feminist history and theory of embroidery, and it consumed my entire day." --Elizabeth McNeill, Chicago Review of Books "Throughout Cross-Stitch , Barrera weaves, braids and composes the story of the trio''s friendship into a plot so convincing and emotionally intelligent that readers may mistake it for a memoir, while seamlessly incorporating intriguing tidbits about the history of embroidery...Barrera''s prose is insightful and precise, and MacSweeney''s translation conveys a natural, conversational rhythm." --BookPage "A feminist, intertextual gem reminiscent of Still Born and A Ghost in the Throat, Cross-Stitch considers friendship and grief alongside women''s work, musing on its serious themes with nimble grace." --Shelf Awareness "The multi-talented Barrera, author of the memoir Linea Nigra (2022), turns to fiction in this introspective translation from the original Spanish... Lovers of language and subtle character development will be enthralled." -- Booklist "The novel evokes the awkward process of growing up, chronicling adolescence and the transition into adulthood vividly and frankly...a somber book about the formative, irreplicable experiences shared between friends and the agony and bewilderment of loss." --Kirkus Reviews "Jazmina Barrera''s Cross-Stitch is a beautifully woven tale of friendship, coming of age, womanhood, and loss that never shies away from the complexity of grief--all while honoring the joy that is to be found in life. Masterfully written, and with a fascinating history of the art of needlework stitched throughout, here is a delicate novel in which embroidery becomes a breathtaking language unto itself. Christina MacSweeney perfectly captures Jazmina Barrera''s poetic voice in this incredibly precise and moving translation." --Isaac Fitzgerald, author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts "Jazmina Barrera has written an astonishing book, one that illuminates the mysterious, intricate, and eternal nature of female friendship. Through prose that never fails to find the profound in the particular, Barrera''s Cross-Stitch takes readers on a journey through the little private universes people make through relation to one another." --Chloé Cooper Jones, author of Easy Beauty "Barrera embroiders a tender story of friendship and loss, intricately weaving the complexities of womanhood, self-discovery, and the human experiences that bind us." --Reyna Grande, author of A Ballad of Love and Glory "Never has a novel about friendship rung truer to me than this one. This is literary art at its most insightful, most tender, most wise. Cross-Stitch is a soft-spoken, hyper-articulate masterpiece. " --John Wray, author of Gone to the Wolves, One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2023 ( The Millions ) One of the Best Books of the 2023 So Far (Chicago Review of Books) "Needlework is often depicted as a peaceful activity: feminine, unthreatening, decorative. Yet in Jazmina Barrera''s understated and lovely debut novel, Cross-Stitch , translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney, embroidery is revealed to be as quietly brutal as young womanhood, despite the shroud of innocence society often places over both." -- The New York Times "Reflections on youth, the passage of time, and the meaning of female friendship....[Jazmina Barrera] blend[s] Sally Rooney-esque interpersonal chaos with a clean, graceful prose style." --Vogue "Stitches, secrets, shame: When Jazmina Barrera''s first novel translated into English, Cross-Stitch, hits shelves in November, read it. Barrera stitches a female coming-of-age story together with a feminist history and theory of embroidery, and it consumed my entire day." -- Chicago Review of Books "A quilt of language--distinct fragments stitched together to form a multiplicitous whole--that juxtaposes teenage memories, adult grief, and researched explorations of sewing and embroidery...Everything there is to admire in Barrera''s essays can be found, slightly transformed, in this first novel." --Full Stop "Throughout Cross-Stitch , Barrera weaves, braids and composes the story of the trio''s friendship into a plot so convincing and emotionally intelligent that readers may mistake it for a memoir, while seamlessly incorporating intriguing tidbits about the history of embroidery...Barrera''s prose is insightful and precise, and MacSweeney''s translation conveys a natural, conversational rhythm." --BookPage "A feminist, intertextual gem reminiscent of Still Born and A Ghost in the Throat, Cross-Stitch considers friendship and grief alongside women''s work, musing on its serious themes with nimble grace." --Shelf Awareness "The multi-talented Barrera, author of the memoir Linea Nigra (2022), turns to fiction in this introspective translation from the original Spanish... Lovers of language and subtle character development will be enthralled." -- Booklist "The novel evokes the awkward process of growing up, chronicling adolescence and the transition into adulthood vividly and frankly...a somber book about the formative, irreplicable experiences shared between friends and the agony and bewilderment of loss." --Kirkus Reviews "Jazmina Barrera''s Cross-Stitch is a beautifully woven tale of friendship, coming of age, womanhood, and loss that never shies away from the complexity of grief--all while honoring the joy that is to be found in life. Masterfully written, and with a fascinating history of the art of needlework stitched throughout, here is a delicate novel in which embroidery becomes a breathtaking language unto itself. Christina MacSweeney perfectly captures Jazmina Barrera''s poetic voice in this incredibly precise and moving translation." --Isaac Fitzgerald, author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts "Jazmina Barrera has written an astonishing book, one that illuminates the mysterious, intricate, and eternal nature of female friendship. Through prose that never fails to find the profound in the particular, Barrera''s Cross-Stitch takes readers on a journey through the little private universes people make through relation to one another." --Chloé Cooper Jones, author of Easy Beauty "Barrera embroiders a tender story of friendship and loss, intricately weaving the complexities of womanhood, self-discovery, and the human experiences that bind us." --Reyna Grande, author of A Ballad of Love and Glory "Never has a novel about friendship rung truer to me than this one. This is literary art at its most insightful, most tender, most wise. Cross-Stitch is a soft-spoken, hyper-articulate masterpiece. " --John Wray, author of Gone to the Wolves, One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2023 ( The Millions ) One of the Best Books of the 2023 So Far (Chicago Review of Books) A Publishers Lunch Buzz Book Selection for 2023 "Stitches, secrets, shame: When Jazmina Barrera's first novel translated into English, Cross-Stitch, hits shelves in November, read it. Barrera stitches a female coming-of-age story together with a feminist history and theory of embroidery, and it consumed my entire day." --Elizabeth McNeill, Chicago Review of Books "A feminist, intertextual gem reminiscent of Still Born and A Ghost in the Throat, Cross-Stitch considers friendship and grief alongside women's work, musing on its serious themes with nimble grace." --Shelf Awareness "The multi-talented Barrera, author of the memoir Linea Nigra (2022), turns to fiction in this introspective translation from the original Spanish... Lovers of language and subtle character development will be enthralled."--Booklist "The novel evokes the awkward process of growing up, chronicling adolescence and the transition into adulthood vividly and frankly...a somber book about the formative, irreplicable experiences shared between friends and the agony and bewilderment of loss." --Kirkus Reviews "Jazmina Barrera's Cross-Stitch is a beautifully woven tale of friendship, coming of age, womanhood, and loss that never shies away from the complexity of grief--all while honoring the joy that is to be found in life. Masterfully written, and with a fascinating history of the art of needlework stitched throughout, here is a delicate novel in which embroidery becomes a breathtaking language unto itself. Christina MacSweeney perfectly captures Jazmina Barrera's poetic voice in this incredibly precise and moving translation." --Isaac Fitzgerald, author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts "Jazmina Barrera has written an astonishing book, one that illuminates the mysterious, intricate, and eternal nature of female friendship. Through prose that never fails to find the profound in the particular, Barrera's Cross-Stitch takes readers on a journey through the little private universes people make through relation to one another." --Chloé Cooper Jones, author of Easy Beauty "Barrera embroiders a tender story of friendship and loss, intricately weaving the complexities of womanhood, self-discovery, and the human experiences that bind us." --Reyna Grande, author of A Ballad of Love and Glory "Never has a novel about friendship rung truer to me than this one. This is literary art at its most insightful, most tender, most wise. Cross-Stitch is a soft-spoken, hyper-articulate masterpiece. " --John Wray, author of Gone to the Wolves, "Never has a novel about friendship rung truer to me than this one. This is literary art at its most insightful, most tender, most wise. Cross Stitch is a soft-spoken, hyper-articulate masterpiece. " --John Wray, author of Gone to the Wolves Praise for Jazmina Barrera " Linea Nigra is a beautiful and lucid essay about the journey across motherhood seasons - pregnancy, childbirth and first months of parenting. Far from mythologizing motherhood as an idealized state, Linea Nigra sheds light on the complex and contradictory nature of gestation: a state crossed by terrors, but also by hopes and love; a biological and spiritual mystery that concerns all human beings, as individuals and as a society." --Fernanda Melchor, The Guardian, on Linea Nigra "A strange, slim, hybrid book...disarmingly fresh and provocative....[Barrera's] is a vision of art as feminine, never truly original or new, but a cycle: art as birth and death; bodies decomposing in the dirt, the roots 'the tree of our flesh.'" --Christine Henneberg, New York Review of Books, on Linea Nigra "Clear-eyed and poetic...[A] generous, openhearted project inviting readers to discover what is often hidden away, unseen." -- Los Angeles Review of Books on Linea Nigra "Eminently worthy of acclaim." --Vogue (The Best Books of 2022 So Far) on Linea Nigra "Lighthouses, the 'frontier between civilization and nature,' are places of solitude. But they are also signals of shore and home. This book is a light at the end of the tunnel, showing us places we'll see and things we'll do when we can go out again." --The Paris Review on On Lighthouses "Precise and erudite, Barrera's writing is as alluring and arresting as the landscapes and stories it conveys. Each piece is crafted with care, imbued with Barrera's poignant critical sense and her perspicacious ability to unravel the different levels of affect, historicity, and magnificence that constitute the everyday life of each lighthouse." --Ignacio M. Sánchez, Los Angeles Review of Books on On Lighthouses "A slim, idiosyncratic history of these structures and their appearances in literature--from Robert Louis Stevenson, whose father and grandfather engineered them, to Virginia Woolf, to Ray Bradbury--the book allows the reader flashes of Barrera's emotional life amid the accumulated detail." --Harper's on On Lighthouses, One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2023 ( The Millions ) One of the Best Books of the 2023 So Far (Chicago Review of Books) A Publishers Lunch Buzz Book Selection for 2023 "Stitches, secrets, shame: When Jazmina Barrera's first novel translated into English, Cross-Stitch, hits shelves in November, read it. Barrera stitches a female coming-of-age story together with a feminist history and theory of embroidery, and it consumed my entire day." --Elizabeth McNeill, Chicago Review of Books "A feminist, intertextual gem reminiscent of Still Born and A Ghost in the Throat, Cross-Stitch considers friendship and grief alongside women's work, musing on its serious themes with nimble grace." --Shelf Awareness "The multi-talented Barrera, author of the memoir Linea Nigra (2022), turns to fiction in this introspective translation from the original Spanish... Lovers of language and subtle character development will be enthralled." -- Booklist "The novel evokes the awkward process of growing up, chronicling adolescence and the transition into adulthood vividly and frankly...a somber book about the formative, irreplicable experiences shared between friends and the agony and bewilderment of loss." --Kirkus Reviews "Jazmina Barrera's Cross-Stitch is a beautifully woven tale of friendship, coming of age, womanhood, and loss that never shies away from the complexity of grief--all while honoring the joy that is to be found in life. Masterfully written, and with a fascinating history of the art of needlework stitched throughout, here is a delicate novel in which embroidery becomes a breathtaking language unto itself. Christina MacSweeney perfectly captures Jazmina Barrera's poetic voice in this incredibly precise and moving translation." --Isaac Fitzgerald, author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts "Jazmina Barrera has written an astonishing book, one that illuminates the mysterious, intricate, and eternal nature of female friendship. Through prose that never fails to find the profound in the particular, Barrera's Cross-Stitch takes readers on a journey through the little private universes people make through relation to one another." --Chloé Cooper Jones, author of Easy Beauty "Barrera embroiders a tender story of friendship and loss, intricately weaving the complexities of womanhood, self-discovery, and the human experiences that bind us." --Reyna Grande, author of A Ballad of Love and Glory "Never has a novel about friendship rung truer to me than this one. This is literary art at its most insightful, most tender, most wise. Cross-Stitch is a soft-spoken, hyper-articulate masterpiece. " --John Wray, author of Gone to the Wolves, One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2023 ( The Millions ) One of the Best Books of the 2023 So Far (Chicago Review of Books) A Publishers Lunch Buzz Book Selection for 2023 "Jazmina Barrera''s Cross Stitch is a beautifully woven tale of friendship, coming of age, womanhood, and loss that never shies away from the complexity of grief--all while honoring the joy that is to be found in life. Masterfully written, and with a fascinating history of the art of needlework stitched throughout, here is a delicate novel in which embroidery becomes a breathtaking language unto itself. Christina MacSweeney perfectly captures Jazmina Barrera''s poetic voice in this incredibly precise and moving translation." --Isaac Fitzgerald, author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts "Jazmina Barrera has written an astonishing book, one that illuminates the mysterious, intricate, and eternal nature of female friendship. Through prose that never fails to find the profound in the particular, Barrera''s Cross-Stitch takes readers on a journey through the little private universes people make through relation to one another." --Chloé Cooper Jones, author of Easy Beauty "Barrera embroiders a tender story of friendship and loss, intricately weaving the complexities of womanhood, self-discovery, and the human experiences that bind us." --Reyna Grande, author of A Ballad of Love and Glory "Never has a novel about friendship rung truer to me than this one. This is literary art at its most insightful, most tender, most wise. Cross-Stitch is a soft-spoken, hyper-articulate masterpiece. " --John Wray, author of Gone to the Wolves Praise for Jazmina Barrera " Linea Nigra is a beautiful and lucid essay about the journey across motherhood seasons - pregnancy, childbirth and first months of parenting. Far from mythologizing motherhood as an idealized state, Linea Nigra sheds light on the complex and contradictory nature of gestation: a state crossed by terrors, but also by hopes and love; a biological and spiritual mystery that concerns all human beings, as individuals and as a society." --Fernanda Melchor, The Guardian, on Linea Nigra "A strange, slim, hybrid book...disarmingly fresh and provocative....[Barrera''s] is a vision of art as feminine, never truly original or new, but a cycle: art as birth and death; bodies decomposing in the dirt, the roots ''the tree of our flesh.''" --Christine Henneberg, New York Review of Books, on Linea Nigra "Clear-eyed and poetic...[A] generous, openhearted project inviting readers to discover what is often hidden away, unseen." -- Los Angeles Review of Books on Linea Nigra "Eminently worthy of acclaim." --Vogue (The Best Books of 2022 So Far) on Linea Nigra "Lighthouses, the ''frontier between civilization and nature,'' are places of solitude. But they are also signals of shore and home. This book is a light at the end of the tunnel, showing us places we''ll see and things we''ll do when we can go out again." --The Paris Review on On Lighthouses "Precise and erudite, Barrera''s writing is as alluring and arresting as the landscapes and stories it conveys. Each piece is crafted with care, imbued with Barrera''s poignant critical sense and her perspicacious ability to unravel the different levels of affect, historicity, and magnificence that constitute the everyday life of each lighthouse." --Ignacio M. Sánchez, Los Angeles Review of Books on On Lighthouses "A slim, idiosyncratic history of these structures and their appearances in literature--from Robert Louis Stevenson, whose father and grandfather engineered them, to Virginia Woolf, to Ray Bradbury--the book allows the reader flashes of Barrera''s emotional life amid the accumulated detail." --Harper''s on On Lighthouses, One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2023 ( The Millions ) One of the Best Books of the 2023 So Far (Chicago Review of Books) A Publishers Lunch Buzz Book Selection for 2023 "Stitches, secrets, shame: When Jazmina Barrera's first novel translated into English, Cross-Stitch, hits shelves in November, read it. Barrera stitches a female coming-of-age story together with a feminist history and theory of embroidery, and it consumed my entire day." --Elizabeth McNeill, Chicago Review of Books "Throughout Cross-Stitch , Barrera weaves, braids and composes the story of the trio's friendship into a plot so convincing and emotionally intelligent that readers may mistake it for a memoir, while seamlessly incorporating intriguing tidbits about the history of embroidery...Barrera's prose is insightful and precise, and MacSweeney's translation conveys a natural, conversational rhythm." --BookPage "A feminist, intertextual gem reminiscent of Still Born and A Ghost in the Throat, Cross-Stitch considers friendship and grief alongside women's work, musing on its serious themes with nimble grace." --Shelf Awareness "The multi-talented Barrera, author of the memoir Linea Nigra (2022), turns to fiction in this introspective translation from the original Spanish... Lovers of language and subtle character development will be enthralled." -- Booklist "The novel evokes the awkward process of growing up, chronicling adolescence and the transition into adulthood vividly and frankly...a somber book about the formative, irreplicable experiences shared between friends and the agony and bewilderment of loss." --Kirkus Reviews "Jazmina Barrera's Cross-Stitch is a beautifully woven tale of friendship, coming of age, womanhood, and loss that never shies away from the complexity of grief--all while honoring the joy that is to be found in life. Masterfully written, and with a fascinating history of the art of needlework stitched throughout, here is a delicate novel in which embroidery becomes a breathtaking language unto itself. Christina MacSweeney perfectly captures Jazmina Barrera's poetic voice in this incredibly precise and moving translation." --Isaac Fitzgerald, author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts "Jazmina Barrera has written an astonishing book, one that illuminates the mysterious, intricate, and eternal nature of female friendship. Through prose that never fails to find the profound in the particular, Barrera's Cross-Stitch takes readers on a journey through the little private universes people make through relation to one another." --Chloé Cooper Jones, author of Easy Beauty "Barrera embroiders a tender story of friendship and loss, intricately weaving the complexities of womanhood, self-discovery, and the human experiences that bind us." --Reyna Grande, author of A Ballad of Love and Glory "Never has a novel about friendship rung truer to me than this one. This is literary art at its most insightful, most tender, most wise. Cross-Stitch is a soft-spoken, hyper-articulate masterpiece. " --John Wray, author of Gone to the Wolves, "Never has a novel about friendship rung truer to me than this one. This is literary art at its most insightful, most tender, most wise. Cross-Stitch is a soft-spoken, hyper-articulate masterpiece. " --John Wray, author of Gone to the Wolves Praise for Jazmina Barrera " Linea Nigra is a beautiful and lucid essay about the journey across motherhood seasons - pregnancy, childbirth and first months of parenting. Far from mythologizing motherhood as an idealized state, Linea Nigra sheds light on the complex and contradictory nature of gestation: a state crossed by terrors, but also by hopes and love; a biological and spiritual mystery that concerns all human beings, as individuals and as a society." --Fernanda Melchor, The Guardian, on Linea Nigra "A strange, slim, hybrid book...disarmingly fresh and provocative....[Barrera's] is a vision of art as feminine, never truly original or new, but a cycle: art as birth and death; bodies decomposing in the dirt, the roots 'the tree of our flesh.'" --Christine Henneberg, New York Review of Books, on Linea Nigra "Clear-eyed and poetic...[A] generous, openhearted project inviting readers to discover what is often hidden away, unseen." -- Los Angeles Review of Books on Linea Nigra "Eminently worthy of acclaim." --Vogue (The Best Books of 2022 So Far) on Linea Nigra "Lighthouses, the 'frontier between civilization and nature,' are places of solitude. But they are also signals of shore and home. This book is a light at the end of the tunnel, showing us places we'll see and things we'll do when we can go out again." --The Paris Review on On Lighthouses "Precise and erudite, Barrera's writing is as alluring and arresting as the landscapes and stories it conveys. Each piece is crafted with care, imbued with Barrera's poignant critical sense and her perspicacious ability to unravel the different levels of affect, historicity, and magnificence that constitute the everyday life of each lighthouse." --Ignacio M. Sánchez, Los Angeles Review of Books on On Lighthouses "A slim, idiosyncratic history of these structures and their appearances in literature--from Robert Louis Stevenson, whose father and grandfather engineered them, to Virginia Woolf, to Ray Bradbury--the book allows the reader flashes of Barrera's emotional life amid the accumulated detail." --Harper's on On Lighthouses, One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2023 ( The Millions ) One of the Best Books of the 2023 So Far (Chicago Review of Books) "Needlework is often depicted as a peaceful activity: feminine, unthreatening, decorative. Yet in Jazmina Barrera''s understated and lovely debut novel, Cross-Stitch , translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney, embroidery is revealed to be as quietly brutal as young womanhood, despite the shroud of innocence society often places over both." -- The New York Times "Reflections on youth, the passage of time, and the meaning of female friendship....[Jazmina Barrera] blend[s] Sally Rooney-esque interpersonal chaos with a clean, graceful prose style." --Vogue "Stitches, secrets, shame: When Jazmina Barrera''s first novel translated into English, Cross-Stitch, hits shelves in November, read it. Barrera stitches a female coming-of-age story together with a feminist history and theory of embroidery, and it consumed my entire day." --Elizabeth McNeill, Chicago Review of Books "Throughout Cross-Stitch , Barrera weaves, braids and composes the story of the trio''s friendship into a plot so convincing and emotionally intelligent that readers may mistake it for a memoir, while seamlessly incorporating intriguing tidbits about the history of embroidery...Barrera''s prose is insightful and precise, and MacSweeney''s translation conveys a natural, conversational rhythm." --BookPage "A feminist, intertextual gem reminiscent of Still Born and A Ghost in the Throat, Cross-Stitch considers friendship and grief alongside women''s work, musing on its serious themes with nimble grace." --Shelf Awareness "The multi-talented Barrera, author of the memoir Linea Nigra (2022), turns to fiction in this introspective translation from the original Spanish... Lovers of language and subtle character development will be enthralled." -- Booklist "The novel evokes the awkward process of growing up, chronicling adolescence and the transition into adulthood vividly and frankly...a somber book about the formative, irreplicable experiences shared between friends and the agony and bewilderment of loss." --Kirkus Reviews "Jazmina Barrera''s Cross-Stitch is a beautifully woven tale of friendship, coming of age, womanhood, and loss that never shies away from the complexity of grief--all while honoring the joy that is to be found in life. Masterfully written, and with a fascinating history of the art of needlework stitched throughout, here is a delicate novel in which embroidery becomes a breathtaking language unto itself. Christina MacSweeney perfectly captures Jazmina Barrera''s poetic voice in this incredibly precise and moving translation." --Isaac Fitzgerald, author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts "Jazmina Barrera has written an astonishing book, one that illuminates the mysterious, intricate, and eternal nature of female friendship. Through prose that never fails to find the profound in the particular, Barrera''s Cross-Stitch takes readers on a journey through the little private universes people make through relation to one another." --Chloé Cooper Jones, author of Easy Beauty "Barrera embroiders a tender story of friendship and loss, intricately weaving the complexities of womanhood, self-discovery, and the human experiences that bind us." --Reyna Grande, author of A Ballad of Love and Glory "Never has a novel about friendship rung truer to me than this one. This is literary art at its most insightful, most tender, most wise. Cross-Stitch is a soft-spoken, hyper-articulate masterpiece. " --John Wray, author of Gone to the Wolves
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