The dance and the fire
(2025)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
NEW FICTION/SALDANA PARIS,D

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
New & Popular Fiction NEW FICTION/SALDANA PARIS,D Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Catapult, 2025
EDITION
First Catapult edition
DESCRIPTION

239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781646222452, 1646222458 :, 1646222458, 9781646222452
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"After years apart, three high school friends return to Cuernavaca, Mexico, where an intense love triangle once left an indelible mark on their adolescence. The city, surrounded by a ring of claustrophobic wildfires, brings out the past and confronts them with their present: they must once again face the entanglement of friendship and desire, the seemingly distant discovery of sexuality, complex parental relationships, and the daunting task of artistic fulfillment. In the background, two forces of chaos and destruction are a constant presence. As fires ravage the physical landscape, one of the friends begins choreographing an ecstatic dance inspired by the German expressionist Mary Wigman and medieval Danse Macabre. What starts as a coping mechanism for the anxieties of youth and climate catastrophe becomes an overpowering, all-consuming hysteria. Mysterious powers are awakened, the boundary between reality and myth begins to blur, and the friends find themselves immersed in an increasingly turbulent and uncertain universe"--

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