Abstract

This is a work of literary fiction. It addresses family dynamics, immigration, and infidelity. It plays with form and language by introducing a two column structure whenever a character speaks Spanish. The story is narrated and lived by Vero, a young woman from Chile, in the first person and past tense. Vero is visiting her estranged cousin in Boston. She is escaping her father's scandalous affair with his male secretary, on his pregnant second wife. Vero's behaviour is compulsive and obsessive, particularly once she begins her own affair with her cousin's ex-boyfriend.