Bad Handwriting - 9781948830553

Sara Mesa

Bad HandwritingAuthor(s): Sara Mesa\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Open Letter, United States\nImprint: Open Letter\nISBN-13: 9781948830553, 978-1948830553\nSynopsis\nCollection of eleven stories from the author of 2020's most acclaimed work of Spanish fiction. From the author of the highly acclaimed Four by Four and Among the Hedges comes a collection of unsettling, captivating stories. The eleven stories in this collection approach themes of childhood and adolescence, guilt and redemption, power and freedom. There are children who resist authority and experience the process of growing up with shock, and loneliness; alienated young girls whose rebellion lies under the surface - subterranean, furious and impotent; people who are tormented - or not - by regret and doubt, addicted to feelings of culpability; men who take advantage of women and adults who exercise power over children with a disturbing degree of control; kids abandoned by their parents; the suicide of the elderly and the.