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Mona : A Novel by Pola Oloixarac, Adam Morris is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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From the critically acclaimed author of Savage Theories and Dark Constellations comes Pola Oloixarac's Mona , where success as a writer of color proves to be a fresh hell for a young Latin American woman abroad. Mona, a Peruvian writer based in California, presents a tough and sardonic exterior. She likes drugs and cigarettes, and when she learns that she's something of an anthropological curiosity herself--a "woman writer of color" treasured in her university for the flourish of rarefied diversity she brings--she pokes fun at American academic culture and its fixation on identity. When she is unexpectedly nominated for "the most important literary award in Europe," Mona sees a chance to escape her spiral of sunlit substance abuse and erotic distractions, and so she trades the temptations of California for small, gray village in Sweden close to the Artic. Now she's stuck in the company of all her jetlagged--and mostly male--competitors, arriving from Japan, France, Armenia, Iran, Colombia. Isolated as they are, the writers do what writers do: exchange compliments, nurse envy and private resentments, stab rivals in the back, and hop in bed together--and all the while, Mona keep

Who reads Mona : A Novel?

Author

Pola Oloixarac, Adam Morris

Publisher

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374211899

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Romance, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.6 / 5 (158 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14