Boulder (Paperback)
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Staff Reviews
It's giving . . . drinking during the day at a café in Paris with all your literary icons and maybe ordering something sweet with a side order of fulfilling conversation. Baltasar writes so beautifully, you'll think ' Wow ! I should go to Book Culture and get Permafrost (2018) '
— From Molly R. Staff PicksDescription
Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname "Boulder." When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides to move there together, Samsa decides that she wants to have a child. She is already forty and can't bear to let the opportunity pass her by. Boulder is less enthused, but doesn't know how to say no--and so finds herself dragged along on a journey that feels as thankless as it is alien.
With motherhood changing Samsa into a stranger, Boulder must decide where her priorities lie, and whether her yearning for freedom can truly trump her yearning for love.
Once again, Eva Baltasar demonstrates her preeminence as a chronicler of queer voices navigating a hostile world--and in prose as brittle and beautiful as an ancient saga.
