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4.8
44 reviewsOriginal published in Spanish as: Punto de cruz (2021)
A debut novel of female friendship & coming-of-age from Jazmina Barrera, acclaimed author of Linea Nigra & On Lighthouses, translated by Christina MacSweeney.
It was meant to be the trip of a lifetime. Mila, Citlali, & Dalia, childhood friends now college aged, leave Mexico City for the England of The Clash & the Paris of Courbet. They anticipate the cafés crushes, but not the early signs that they are each steadily, inevitably changing.
That feels like forever ago. Mila, now a writer & a new mother, has just published a book on needlecraft—an art form so long dismissed as "women's work." But after learning Citlali has drowned, Mila begins to sift through her old scrapbooks, reflecting on their shared youth for the first time as a new wife & mother. What has come of all the nights the three friends spent embroidering together in silence? Did she miss the signs that Citlali needed help?
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“Stitches, secrets, shame:... Barrera stitches a female coming-of-age story together with a feminist history & theory of embroidery, & it consumed my entire day.” — Chicago Review of Books
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Jazmina Barrera’s book Cuerpo extraño (Foreign Body) was awarded the Latin American Voices prize by Literal Publishing, & On Lighthouses was chosen for the Indie Next list by IndieBound. Linea Nigra was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Autobiography Prize, CANIEM’s Book of the Year award, & the Amazon Primera Novela (First Novel) Award. She is editor & co-founder of Ediciones Antílope. She lives in Mexico City.
Christina MacSweeney’s work has been recognized in a number of important awards, & her translation of Valeria Luiselli’s The Story of My Teeth was awarded the Valle Inclán Translation Prize & also shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award.
