Talk With Author Katy Adaui About Her Collection Of Short Stories Here Be Icebergs

Here Be Icebergs

The mysteries of kinship (families born into and families made) take disconcerting and familiar shapes in these refreshingly frank short stories. A family is haunted by a beast that splatters fruit against its walls every night, another undergoes a near-collision with a bus on the way home from the beach. Mothers are cold, fathers are absent-we know these moments in the abstract, but Adaui makes each as uncanny as our own lives: close but not yet understood.

Book published by Charco Press.

Katya Adaui (born 1977) is a Peruvian writer. She is the author of the short story collections Geografía de la oscuridad, Aquí hay icebergs and Algo se nos ha escapado. She has also written 2 novels: Quiénes somos ahora and Nunca sabré lo que entiendo and also 3 children's books: Todo puede ser otra cosa, Patichueca y Muy Muy en Bora Bora. Adaui's story collection Aquí hay icebergs has been translated by Rosalind Harvey for Charco Press.

She lives in Buenos Aires and dictates writing workshops.