Fonseca - by Jessica Francis Keane (Paperback)

About the Book

Winter of 1952. Penelope Fitzgerald's life is crumbling: her husband -- brilliant, yet consumed by alcohol -- can no longer support the household; debts are mounting, and she, pregnant with her third child, sees almost no way out. Then, an unusual letter arrives: the Delaney sisters -- two elderly Irishwomen who own a silver mine in northern Mexico -- claim they wish to leave a life-saving inheritance to her son, Valpy. Thus, Penelope crosses the ocean with the boy to Fonseca, a remote estate deep in the desert. But nothing there matches what was promised. Living together in the house are fortune seekers, an overly ambitious American couple, wandering artists -- among them Edward Hopper and his wife -- merchants, opportunists... and a man who claims to be the rightful heir. For three months -- between the Day of the Dead and Candlemas -- Penelope must navigate a web of intrigues, fragile loyalties, and a landscape straight out of a novel. Fonseca becomes her journey of initiation -- the unexpected prelude to the career of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.

About the Author

Jessica Franzis Kane (Nueva York, 1971) es autora de las novelas The Report --finalista del Center for Fiction First Novel Prize-- y Rules for Visiting, así como de los libros de cuentos This Close y Bending Heaven. Ha sido nominada al PEN/Hemingway Award y distinguida por su maestría en el relato breve. Sus textos han aparecido en publicaciones de referencia como The New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney's y Granta. Dueña de un estilo preciso, melancólico y profundamente humano, combina la indagación psicológica con un fino sentido de la observación. Actualmente reside en Nueva York, donde continúa desarrollando una obra que la ha consolidado como una autora imprescindible en el panorama literario anglosajón.