The Cracks We Bear

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Praise for The Cracks We Bear 

“Reflective, sensitive, and often moving, Catalina Infante’s first novel revolves around a mother-daughter relationship, its silences, distances, and cracks.” —La Tercera 

“A poignant story, full of touching moments that approach motherhood from a more human perspective. It addresses the fears, exhaustion, and disappointment of first-time mothers who feel suffocated by overwhelming social mandates. Catalina Infante constructs a vision of motherhood that is terrifying, and describes a facet of motherhood that is not portrayed in magazines, TV shows, or movies.” —Infobae

“A literary composition somewhere between a confessional diary and a costumbrista’s work that portrays society with some sarcasm, but also with the necessary dose of tenderness and hope. The author outlines, with a beautifully feminine intimacy, the shaken Chile of the last 30 year. The novel gives voice to an uprooted Chilean daughter of political exiles, in search of her own intimate identity, in a country that was foreign to her from the very moment of her birth.” —Cine y literatura 

“A very personal, intimate book that explores longings, doubts, tiredness, and social pressures connected to motherhood, and the need to return to normality, to recover oneself, one’s own body.” —Bio Bio Chile 

“Catalina Infante writes with empathy about loneliness, grief, fears, exile, motherhood, and the relationship of mothers with feminism.” —Culturizarte 

“When her daughter Antonia is born, Laura thinks of Esther, her mother. A mother who was not especially loving, who thought the best inheritance was a good education. A mother with whom Laura had may differences, and who died from cancer when she was 18. Laura finds photos and postcards that Esther never sent; she relives vague and elusive moments in her memory, and discovers that she did not know the woman who lived in her mother.” —La Tercera