Coming from a third world country, the author lives a very quiet family life in Switzerland with her daughter Viviana, a cat called Gatti and all of her paintings. The squareness of her life as a businesswoman is challenged by world events, the news, and is made colorful by her paintings and by some real-life characters who inevitably cross her way.
This breathlessly compulsive novel, by turns savage and tender, funny and wise, horrifying and uplifting, tells the story of Aloisio, born male in Latin America, who is convinced from an early age that she is a woman in a man’s body. Moving to the United States to work in the theatre, the butterfl...
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