World's Best Mother
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NURIA LABARI was born in Santander and is a writer and journalist. She has written for El Mundo, as well as Telecinco, where she was the editor in chief for web content. She is currently a frequent contributor to El País. Her short-story collection Los borrachos de mi vida ("The Drunkards in My Life") won the seventh Premio Narrativa de Caja de Madrid in 2009. In 2016 she published her first novel, Cosas que brillan cuando están rotas ("Things That Shine When Broken"). World's Best Mother is her latest work.
KATIE WHITTEMORE translates from the Spanish and lives in Valencia, Spain. She is the translator of Four by Four (Open Letter Books, 2020) by Sara Mesa, and her work has appeared in Two Lines, The Arkansas International, The Common Online, Gulf Coast Magazine Online, The Brooklyn Rail, and InTranslation. Current projects include novels by Spanish authors Sara Mesa, Javier Serena, and Aliocha Coll (for Open Letter Books), and Aroa Moreno Durán (for Tinder Press).
Content
- Intro
- ONE The Punctuality of Playmobil Bunnies
- TWO I Can't Have Children
- THREE On Horseback or In Diapers
- FOUR On Failure and Bubble Gum
- FIVE The Desire
- SIX And Mother Saw That It Was Good
- SEVEN To Sing a Lullaby
- EIGHT When D1 Cries, Man Smiles
- NINE Damn Little Soul-Stealers
- TEN Culture and Time: A Recipe for Erasure
- ELEVEN Entrance Exam
- TWELVE A Word of Warning, Mammal Mothers
- THIRTEEN A Mother Is
- FOURTEEN MyMother's Mother
- FIFTEEN The Surrender to MyMother
- SIXTEEN Violently
- SEVENTEEN My Name Is Lucy
- EIGHTEEN First-Person Plural
- NINETEEN A Father Is Not
- TWENTY D1 Flies with Black Wings
- TWENTY-ONE Who Is the Best Mother
- TWENTY-TWO But Whose Is Bigger?
- TWENTY-THREE The Sea or A Wall Painted Blue
- TWENTY-FOUR The Time to Act Has Passed
- TWENTY-FIVE Witch in Velvet
- TWENTY-SIX Welcome, D2
- TWENTY-SEVEN You Were Conceived Mortal
- TWENTY-EIGHT Mental Analysis
- TWENTY-NINE Where Is the Love
- THIRTY Obey
- THIRTY-ONE Shipwreck of Happiness
- THIRTY-TWO The Body Is a Literal Animal
- THIRTY-THREE ALover
- THIRTY-FOUR Parenthesis
- THIRTY-FIVE Shall We Take a Selfie?
- THIRTY-SIX Multiple Choice
- THIRTY-SEVEN Peter and the Wolf
- THIRTY-EIGHT Termination
- THIRTY-NINE Mother's Day
- Acknowledgments
- On the Design
