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Brenda Lozano

Biography

Brenda Lozano

Brenda Lozano is a fiction writer, essayist and editor. Her books include TODO NADA (ALL OR NOTHING), followed by CUADERNO IDEAL (LOOP), the book of short stories CÓMO PIENSAN LAS PIEDRAS (HOW STONES THINK) and BRUJAS (WITCHES). She is part of the celebrated Bogotá39 among the best Latin American writers, lives in Mexico City, and writes for El País. 

Brenda Lozano

Books by Brenda Lozano

Mothers
written by Brenda Lozano, translated by Heather Cleary - Fiction, Women's Fiction

When the kidnapping of a little girl shocks the Mexican capital, the lives of two very different women become forever intertwined. Gloria Felipe lives a comfortable upper-class life with her husband and five children. Nuria Valencia comes from a working-class background and has been desperately trying to get pregnant in order to save her marriage. After traditional methods produce no results, she subjects herself to horrific fertility treatments designed and administered by men, and ultimately tries to adopt but is rejected on the basis that a woman in her early 30s is too old to adopt a baby. Failed time and again by the system and about to lose hope, she is presented with an opportunity that seems almost too good to be true.