Mama Amazonica

by Pascale Petit

Book Overview

Mama Amazonica is set in a psychiatric ward and in the Amazon rainforest, an asylum for animals on the brink of extinction. It reveals the story of Pascale Petit's mentally ill mother and the consequences of abuse. The mother transforms into a giant Victoria amazonica waterlily, and a bestiary of untameable creatures - a jaguar girl, a wolverine, a hummingbird - as she marries her rapist and gives birth to his children. From heartbreaking trauma,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780372949
• ISBN13: 9781780372945
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"