A Working Woman [Paperback]

A provocative new novel from the author ranked amongGrantasBest of Young Spanish-Language Novelists
Globally acclaimed as a relentless innovator and a meticulous explorer of the psyches most obscure alleyways, Elvira Navarro here delivers an ambitious tale of feminine friendship, madness, a radically changing city, and the vulnerability that makes us divulge our most shameful secrets. It begins as Elisa transcribes the chaotic testimony of her roommate Susana, acting as part-therapist, part-confessor as Susana reveals the gripping account of her strange sexual urges and the one man who can satisfy them. But is Susana telling the truth? And what to make of the story that follows, where Elisa considers her own life failures, blending her literary ambitions with her deep need for catharsis? And then, one last surprise makes us question everything we have just read. Masterfully uncovering the insecurity that lurks just beneath the surface of every stable life,A Working Womanshows Elvira Navarros strength for mordant storytelling and breathtaking insight into alienation, confirming her status as one of the leading voices of her generation.A provocative new novel from the author ranked amongGrantasBest of Young Spanish-Language Novelists
Written in a unique voice that evokes the alienation Elena feels so deeply, Navarros novel is a complex yet not overwhelming work that deals as adeptly with relationships between people as it does with the relationship people feel to their cities and their work. . . . The novel is thoroughly gripping. World Literature Today
A novel of economic and psychological precarity and an exploration of the tension between the boundedness of art and the formlessness of life, A Working Woman is as charming as a fable and as frenzied as a fever dream. Literary Hub
Elvira Navarro is an enormously gifted and disturbing young writer with an unusual eye for the bizarrlS