2024-07-25 14:08:07
It is likely that after the publication of Phantom Horse (Almadia Publishing House)Karina Sosa (Oaxaca, 1987) has conquered a new space in the Ibero-American literature. Therefore, four years later, during the process of beginning to study History of art and continuing with that tireless desire to write, read and travel, is published Orphanhood (Penguin Random House), his second novel.
By the way, thanks to a space he had between presentations and trips to other states outside of Oaxaca, he visited the editorial office of 24 HOURS to, among other things, tell us about her novel, which Karina defines as a autofiction.
“It has to do with an important process for the history of Oaxaca. And it also has to do with the wear and tear or the breaking ofcertain structures, (such as) family, government, the state and what someone believes to be safe in their life. From that, memory and the search are triggered,” revealed the founder of the publishing project. King Vulture.
Regarding the palpable sensitivity in the book, that desire to understand something as complex as the family and especially to someone as important as the mother, Karina says that she believes that “it also arises from the curiosity of this teenager who is wondering what love is really like, if the love of her parents is a model that she wants to replicate in her relationships and, at the same time, she begins to judge the father, but also feels that she does not understand the mother, the self-denial.”
“There are many concepts that are being questioned,” she added. “From that questioning, you start to ask yourself who you are in a world that has decided to erase you, and this erasure is an unjust and painful moment.” because you are dragged by a current that is that other great chaos that is 2006 in Oaxaca”.
THE WRITING PROCESS
It all began, she says, when her grandmother passed away in 2022, because that painful moment was what triggered the writing, especially because it stirred in her, thanks to the words of a friend of hers, those times when his father was in prisonher mother announcing the news and she along with her sisters and brother, as if adrift.
“I started writing it and it was a lot of editing work,” she confessed. “It has changed a lot from the first story I wrote. My editor, Eloisa Nava, It helped me a lot. There have been many stories to get to Orphanhood”.
In some ways, he attributes it to memory, as he describes it as a device or an extremely rare device.
“It distorts everything, it takes you down paths you didn’t expect to travel, as well as to other places. I think writing this story was an act of bravery and courage for me, of impulse, one that doesn’t happen very often“s,” he snapped.
Beyond all the feelings on the surface, the editor also says that two of the books that accompanied the writing of this novel were War and peace, by Leo Tolstoy and The Lying Life of Adultsof Elena Ferrante. “Those were the triggers, but there are many other novels caught in the way,” he concluded.
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2024-07-25 14:08:07