{"product_id":"blood-red-gabriela-ponce-epub","title":"Blood Red — Gabriela Ponce (ePub)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘We felt as if we were just one body—bone, blood, flesh—that momentarily splits apart to come back together, pulled by the irremediable need for touch.’\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Dark, beautiful, and a little disturbing.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e— Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“This book is savage. Ponce’s prose is full of passion, that is, full of desire and pain. That’s why it feels so alive, like a bleeding heart pumping inside your head.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e— Mónica Ojeda, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eJawbone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“A raw, stream-of-consciousness novel that feels like putting Viriginia Woolf and Ottessa Moshfegh in a blender. The exhilarating English-language debut from celebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Ponce, Blood Red centers the female body in a radical exploration of desire, choice, and consequences.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bookculture.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/15\/our-most-anticipated-books-october-2022-part-1\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBook Culture\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn a torrent of stream-of-consciousness fragments, the unnamed narrator of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBlood Red \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003erecounts the aftermath of her failed marriage in explicit, sensual detail. She falls in and out of love, parties with her friends, skates around the city at night, does a lot of drugs, and gives in to her impulses. Her internal monologue is punctuated by bouts of trypophobia, an obsessive cataloguing of holes that empty, fill, widen, and threaten to swallow her entirely.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBlood courses through her every encounter from periods, fights, accidents, wounds, sex, streaming to and from her fixation with holes. Blood is a vibrant reminder of her physicality, a manifestation of her interiority, a link to memories and sensations—until its abrupt absence changes everything.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eProvocative and raw, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBlood Red\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a fierce portrayal of a woman navigating the grey—or red—zones of her uncertainties and paradoxical urges. A subversive grappling with what it means to wrest power over one’s body, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBlood Red\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e revels in the narrator’s autonomy to make choices and face the outcomes, no matter the scale.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTranslated by Sarah Booker.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dead Ink Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53617753030993,"sku":null,"price":4.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/6907\/1697\/files\/BloodRedCover.jpg?v=1776246752","url":"https:\/\/deadinkbooks.com\/products\/blood-red-gabriela-ponce-epub","provider":"Dead Ink Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}