Argentinian born Marina Yuszczuk is the founding editor of a press focused on publishing the work of women. In her latest book, Thirst, two women grapple with fear, desire, and loneliness across two different time periods – one is a vampire on the run in 19th-century Buenos Aires, the other, a present-day citizen confronting her mother’s terminal illness and the burdens of her own motherhood. Blurring the boundaries of genre, Thirst is a feminist Gothic that examines the limits of women’s agency and resembles the likes of literary titans Mary Shelley and Daphne du Maurier. With vibrant prose and a masterful pace, Yuszczuk draws the reader in with empathy – until we are the ones experiencing the fragility and grief of being locked in to a fate.
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