Valeria Luiselli, writer: ‘Not to succumb to the temptation of catastrophe is also a political stance’
Today is the first day Valeria Luiselli has spoken about Beginning Middle End, so the Mexican writer, sitting a couple of Fridays ago in the bright living room of her Bronx home with its suburban feel, apologizes for not yet knowing “what her new novel is about.” “I’ll come to understand it as I talk to other people,” she says. “But I already know it’s a novel about a mother, a daughter, and a grandmother, whose relationships are explored in depth. I know that in it I question imagination and memory — the memory that is lost and the memory that is forming.”

Principio, medio, fin
Valeria Luiselli Feltrinelli, 2026 A la venta el 6 de mayo 360 páginas, 21,90 euros
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