Linea Nigra— Jazmina Barrera

With the intelligent curiosity and transparent, warm language shown in *Cuerpo extraño* (Foreign Body) and *Cuaderno de faros* (Lighthouse Notebook), Jazmina Barrera once again explores her body through writing, but this time through the first moments of her motherhood. It's almost like attending an intimate, familiar chat, accompanying the author's thoughts as she chronicles the transformations of her body, her sensations, fears, and reactions, while also exploring the work of women who, through photographs, texts, or paintings, found in art their own language to narrate and understand — as mothers, daughters, or companions — their experiences of gestation, childbirth, and lactation.

Visiting the stories of women in her family or artists like Tina Modotti, Frida Kahlo, Rosario Castellanos, Marlene Dumas, Mary Shelley, Ursula K. Le Guin, Virginia Woolf, Luz Jiménez, Simone de Beauvoir, Alice Munro, or Margaret Atwood, Barrera's lucid and honest gaze makes no concessions to easy sentimentality; the writer explores the darkness of pregnancy and recounts pain, anguish, or happiness with pristine language that marvels at the mystery, so common yet so magical, of engendering life.

*Linea nigra* is the story of a woman whose body transforms into a text that she will gradually decipher, while her writing is also transformed by her pregnant body.

No. of Pages: 168 / Dimensions: 21.5 cm (Height) x 13.5 cm (Width)

ISBN: 9786078764129