Fruto
Daniela Rea Gómez
NONFICTION | 2023 | 381 pages
Caring for others preserves us, sustains us, and brings us together, but it also destroys us and exhausts us. In Fruto, the contradictions that come with caring for others are addressed through fourteen intertwining voices that form a transgenerational book that explores something that is obvious yet largely unrecognized: the fact stories of caretaking and motherhood aren’t limited to mothers, but rather involve all of us women. Not every woman is a mother, but we have all cared for others and been cared for.
When the never-ending work that comes with motherhood left Daniela Rea feeling like she was cornered in a dark room, she resorted to what she knows best: journalism. To understand her new situation, she looked for other women who were caring for and mothering. Listening to them led her to interview her mother in order to question her own upbringing. As she listened to those experiences of caring for others in extreme circumstances, she found a place and meaning for her own story and was able to make sense of it. Fruto is a conjuring of women; the result of listening to ourselves in order to find what is beckoning to us.
RIGHTS: spanish EDITORIAL ANTÍLOPE | spanish (spain) PEPITAS DE CALABAZA | english (NA) CITY LIGHTS | french ÉDITIONS ICI-BAS
“A perspective that illuminates the nooks and crannies of a country that exists thanks to the life that women build.”
BY DANIELA REA GÓMEZ:
Fruto
NONFICTION, 2023