EATING ASHES: Brenda Navarro in conversation

We are thrilled to be partnering with Instituto Cervantes Manchester to welcome Mexican writer Brenda Navarro to Blackwell's. Brenda will be discussing her novel EATING ASHES with Professor H. Rosi Song of Durham University.

Doors: 6.30pm, Starts: 6.45pm

Tickets are £4 or admission is free when purchasing a copy of the book in advance.

About the book:

Five floors, six seconds, a body crashing to the ground. When our narrator's younger brother, Diego, takes his own life, she retreats into memories of the past, asking herself again and again: why? Revisiting their early years in Mexico, their childhood in Spain and the fragmentation and displacement that coloured their adult years, she pieces together a story of alienation and loss, but also of belonging, courage and hope.

Now, she has to return to Mexico with Diego's ashes in hand. She finds a country that looks very different from the one she left behind and asks what it means to return to a home that never felt like one.

Eating Ashes is a tender, deeply poignant novel, shot through with flashes of dark humour, from a powerful Latin American voice.

About the author:

Brenda Navarro was born in 1982. She studied Sociology and Feminist Economics at UNAM in Mexico City. She has a Masters in Gender Studies from the University of Barcelona. In 2016 she founded #EnjambreLiterario a group of writers who promote writing by women. She researches and writes about women’s labour, women’s access to culture, digital rights and humanities, and migration. Her debut novelEmpty Houses is was published by Daunt Books in 2021, which was widely praised for its powerful exploration of contemporary social issues.

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