Free day
Cagnati, Ines, 1937-20072019
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In the marshy, misty countryside of southwestern France, fourteen-year-old Galla rides her battered bicycle from the private Catholic high school she attends on scholarship to the rocky, barren farm where her family lives. It's a journey she makes every two weeks, forty miles round trip, traveling between opposite poles of ambition and guilt, school and home. Galla's loving, overwhelmed, incompetent mother doesn't want her to go to school; she wants her to stay at home, where Galla can look after her neglected little sisters, defuse her father's brutal rages, and help with the chores. What does this dutiful daughter owe her family, and what does she owe herself?
Main title:
Free day / Ines Cagnati ; translated from the french and with an introduction by Liesl Schillinger.
Author:
Cagnati, Ines, 1937-2007, authorSchillinger, Liesl, translator, writer of introduction
Imprint:
New York : New York Review Books, [2019]
Collation:
xiii, 143 pages ; 21 cm.
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ISBN:
9781681373584 (pbk)
Language:
English
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BRN:
2415885