The Confessions of Seora Francesca Navarro and Other Stories - 9780804010771

The Confessions of Seora Francesca Navarro and Other StoriesAuthor(s): Natalie L. M. Petesch\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Ohio University Press, United States\nImprint: Swallow Press\nISBN-13: 9780804010771, 978-0804010771\nSynopsis\n\""Memory, of course, is sometimes like a bucking horse, sometimes a runaway one, and one must control the reins until finally it stops, snorting with exhausted relief,\"" writes Natalie L. M. Petesch in her haunting new collection, The Confessions of Seora Francesca Navarro and Other Stories.\n Petesch immerses readers in the lives of people caught up in the [tel] Spanish Civil War, which left more than five hundred thousand dead. She captures the hand-to-mouth existence on the streets of Madrid of two war orphans; an old soldier's memories of a fallen militiawoman; the dilemma of Franco's laundress as she seeks to duplicate a stolen religious icon she finds in his home; and a man's struggle to find his bride among thousands of Republican refugees waiti.