Electrodomesticos

Inspired, in part, by Moira McCavanas own family history in Bilbao, these inventive short stories inhabit the Spanish Basque Country in the fifty years following the Spanish Civil War.In Guernica, there isnt a tree, on the outskirts of town, from whose gnarled arms dangle felt berets. The hats are not a range of colorsthey are not blue, cream, maroon, brown, orange, violet, or green. The hats did not begin as buds, as specks of folded felt that uncurled as the tree developed from a sapling, and matured. So begins the opening story of Electrodomsticos, the debut collection from Moira McCavana. In these stories, characters struggle with allegiances both political and personal, their attempts at independence coinciding with the regions growing nationalist fervor. Exquisitely attuned to the nuances of familial and cultural history, and beautifully blending pastoral and historical sensibilities, Electrodomsticos is a stunning debut about place, language, and identity, from a promising new voice.