"This book is a light at the end of the tunnel."--The Paris Review Far from home, in the confines of a dim New York apartment where the oppressive skyscrapers further isolate her, Jazmina Barrera offers a tour of her lighthouses--those structures whose message is "first and foremost, that human beings are here." Starting with Robert Louis Stevenson's grandfather, an engineer charged with illuminating the Scottish coastline,On Lighthouses artfully examines lighthouses from the Spanish to the Oregon coasts and those in the works of Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe, Ingmar Bergman, and many others. In trying to "collect" lighthouses by obsessively describing them, Barrera begins to question the nature of writing, collecting, and how, by staring so intently at one thing we are only trying to avoid others. Equal parts personal memoir and literary history,On Lighthouses takes the reader on a desperate flight from raging sea to cold stone--from a hopeless isolation to a meaningful one--concluding at last in a place of peace: the home of a selfless, guiding light.

On Lighthouses

Biographies & Memoirs

Barrera, Jazmina

Arts & Literature

Two Lines Press

About the Author\nJazmina Barrera was born in Mexico City in 1988. She was a fellow at the Foundation for Mexican Letters. Her book of essays Cuerpo extraño (Foreign Body) was awarded the Latin American Voices prize from Literal Publishing in 2013. In 2020, Two Lines Press published her On Lighthouses in a translation from Christina MacSweeney. She has also published work in various print and digital media, such as Nexos, Este País, Dossier, Vice, El Malpensante, Letras Libres and Tierra Adentro. She has a Master's Degree in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University, which she completed with the support of a Fulbright grant. She was a grantee of the Young Creators program at FONCA. She is editor and co-founder of Ediciones Antílope. She lives in Mexico City.\nChristina MacSweeney received the 2016 Valle Inclan prize for her translation of Valeria Luiselli's The Story of My Teeth, and Among Strange Victims by Daniel Saldaña París was a finalist in the 2017 Best Translated Book Award. Among the other authors she has translated are: Elvira Navarro (A Working Woman, Rabbit Island), Verónica Gerber Bicecci (Empty Set, Palabras migrantes/Migrant Words), and Julián Herbert (Tomb Song, The House of the Pain of Others).\n“Eminently worthy of acclaim.” ―Vogue (The Best Books of 2022 So Far) 
An intimate exploration of motherhood, Linea Nigra approaches the worries and joys of childbearing from a diverse range of inspirations and traditions, from Louise Bourgeois to Ursula K. Le Guin to the indigenous Nahua model Luz Jiménez. Part memoir and part manifesto, Barrera’s singular insights, delivered in candid prose, clarify motherhood while also cherishing the mysteries of the body. 
Writing through her first pregnancy, birthing, breastfeeding, and young motherhood, Barrera embraces the subject fully, making lucid connections between maternity, earthquakes, lunar eclipses, and creative labor. Inspired by the author’s own mother’s painting practice, Linea Nigra concludes with an impassioned call: childbearing is art, and art is childbearing.

Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes

Arts & Photography

"This book is a light at the end of the tunnel." --The Paris Review Far from home, in the confines of a dim New York apartment where the oppressive skyscrapers further isolate her, Jazmina Barrera offers a tour of her lighthouses--those structures whose message is "first and foremost, that human beings are here." Starting with Robert Louis Stevenson's grandfather, an engineer charged with illuminating the Scottish coastline, On Lighthouses artfully examines lighthouses from the Spanish to the Oregon coasts and those in the works of Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe, Ingmar Bergman, and many others. In trying to "collect" lighthouses by obsessively describing them, Barrera begins to question the nature of writing, collecting, and how, by staring so intently at one thing we are only trying to avoid others. Equal parts personal memoir and literary history, On Lighthouses takes the reader on a desperate flight from raging sea to cold stone--from a hopeless isolation to a meaningful one--concluding at last in a place of peace: the home of a selfless, guiding light.

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A debut novel of female friendship and coming-of-age from Jazmina Barrera, acclaimed author of&nbsp;Linea Nigra&nbsp;and&nbsp;On Lighthouses, translated by Christina MacSweeney. It was meant to be the trip of a lifetime.&nbsp;Mila, Citlali, and Dalia, childhood friends now college aged, leave Mexico City for the London of The Clash and the Paris of Courbet. They anticipate the cafés and crushes, but not&nbsp;the early signs that they are each steadily, inevitably changing.&nbsp; That feels like forever ago. Mila, now a writer and a new mother, has just published a book on needlecraft--an art form so long dismissed as "women's work."&nbsp;But after learning Citlali has drowned, Mila begins to sift through her old scrapbooks, reflecting on their&nbsp;shared youth for the first time as a new wife and mother. What has come of all the nights&nbsp;the three friends spent embroidering together in silence? Did she miss the signs that Citlali needed help?

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Literary

Product Description La inesperada muerte de la mejor amiga de la protagonista es el punto de partida de esta novela, que narra la transición a la adultez de tres adolescentes. Su descubrimiento de un mundo atravesado por violencias machistas, clasistas, racistas y medioambientales que las asombra y decepciona a partes iguales. Punto de cruz entreteje diferentes tiempos, conversaciones y vivencias para contarnos la relación entre Mila, Dalia y Citlali, quienes encuentran en la amistad la herramienta más poderosa de cuidado y resistencia. Y también en el bordado, una actividad que a lo largo de diferentes épocas y culturas ha reflejado la represión y la libertad, la comunidad y el arte. Esta novela es, además, la crónica de un viaje de las protagonistas por Europa. Una aventura llena de hallazgos lingüísticos y culturales, en la que el camino de cada una, y sus heridas, empiezan a perfilarse. Review «Una novela hecha de tres vidas que se cruzan como los hilos de un bordado, revelando en el haz y el envés el aprendizaje de la belleza, la solidaridad y la pérdida.» Antonio Muñoz Molina «Uno de los recuerdos más luminosos de mi infancia es aquel en el que mi madre, con su voz cálida y paciente, me explicaba ‘Las hilanderas’, de Velázquez. Leyendo el nuevo libro ―también delicado, también paciente― de Jazmina Barrera, no he podido evitar acordarme de ese cuadro, y encontrar así las resonancias de una voz que se toma la molestia de explicar a otras mujeres; de mostrarnos esas manos tejiendo a escondidas, con el propósito de regalarnos un ángel. Barrera cose y descose aquí una memoria lírica, lúcida, erudita, familiar, y con ella despierta en nosotras recuerdos que parecían ocultos. Hoy miro el cuadro de ‘Las hilanderas’ y en el mismo centro veo la pasión de Jazmina Barrera, acompañada tal vez de Marguerite Duras, o incluso de Maggie Nelson, y sin embargo su empeño es único, su voz es fuerte, su narrativa nos atrae y nos sugiere, desde el huso hasta el dedal.» Luna Miguel «Jazmina Barrera enhebra palabras para ir bordando un texto en donde se encuentran los hilos de la historia de una muerte, las hebras con las que se unen las vidas de tres mujeres adolescentes mediante el recuerdo, un viaje como ritual de paso y las puntadas que citan la voz de otras creadoras que han reflexionado sobre la compleja tarea de bordar, un acto que ha constreñido a las mujeres al mundo de lo doméstico pero que a la vez tiene una potencia creativa que funciona como denuncia y como acción liberadora.» Yásnaya Aguilar About the Author Jazmina Barrera (México, 1988) es licenciada en Literaturas Modernas Inglesas por la UNAM. Cuenta con un máster en Escritura Creativa en Español por NYU y fue becaria de la Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas en el área de ensayo (2012-2014). Obtuvo la Beca Fullbright en 2011 y 2014 y el Premio Latin American Voices de Ensayo 2013. Ha publicado Cuaderno de faros (2019) y Linca nigra (2020). Punto de cruz es su tercer libro. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. «Siempre estábamos bordando y bordábamos juntas. Citlali bordaba un bestiario de animales y plantas extintas, de colores brillantes, y una colección de arañas y telarañas que llamaba su aracnario; Dalia bordaba patrones abstractos, cenefas cada vez más intrincadas; y yo bordaba en mi ropa frases de libros y canciones, y dibujos de objetos, partes del cuerpo y figuras prehispánicas. La gente empezó a referirse a nosotras siempre en plural, con los mismos adjetivos ⎯listas, cariñosas, cortadas, ñoñas, miedosas⎯, a imaginarnos como una criatura de dos o tres cabezas.» «Gritamos el nombre de Citlali hasta que se asomó por la ventana y dijo que ya bajaba. Nos abrazó; tenía lágrimas en los ojos y sonreía. A mí también me dieron ganas de llorar, pero me distraje. La noté delgadísima, sus huesos a punto de romperse, como ramas secas. Tenía un abrigo nuevo que parecía de segunda mano. Su cabello estaba extraño; se lo había cor

Punto de cruz

Genre Fiction

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On Lighthouses

Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes

On Lighthouses

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Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes

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Punto de cruz