Piñen

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

The word "piñen" comes from Mapudungun and refers to the dust or the dirt that sticks to the body. In the all-too-real streets of Santiago de Chile, Daniela Catrileo gives us a portrait of a generation in search of itself. In “Warriache,” two childhood friends whose lives have been marked by their part-Mapuche identity and the memories that bind them circle each other at a party. Their dance of delays and inevitable meeting expands into a tale across epochs—one that gives life to the hidden and