Paradises

By Iosi Havilio

Subjects: Women, Fiction, general, Single mothers, Fiction, Widows, Zoos, Employees, Conduct of life, Buenos aires (argentina), fiction

Description: "Recently widowed, a young woman leaves the countryside for Buenos Aires with her four-year-old son where she seeks to build a new life for herself. She finds work in the zoo and moves into the human zoo of a squatted tower block at the invitation of one of its residents, to whom she acts as nurse, giving morphine injections"--Amazon.com, viewed November 25, 2013.