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Why Did You Come Back Every Summer

by Belén López Peiró

Translated from Spanish by Maureen Shaughnessy.

Published 2024

Paperback, 188 pages

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A fractured account of family abuse, secrets, and the cost of pursuing the truth.

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A fractured documentary of family rape, secrets, and the cost of pursuing the truth. In Belén López Peiró's Why Did You Come Back Every Summer, family is home, and safety, and betrayal. Her uncle, a police commissioner, rapes...

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A fractured documentary of family rape, secrets, and the cost of pursuing the truth. In Belén López Peiró's Why Did You Come Back Every Summer, family is home, and safety, and betrayal. Her uncle, a police commissioner, rapes her. His wife and daughter shelter, then refuse her. Her mother is his sister. And no one wants to believe her. This is a true story of intimate sexual violence. Told in multiple voices, and by the police reports filed and interviews made, the demand that truth makes, the cost it incurs, is filed away. Most important is the shifting, slipping loyalty everyone has to the ones they love. Who do you owe yourself to? Who owes you? What must be done to take yourself back? But now it's time to give yourself some closure and start to tell yourself another story. The story of your life, which doesn't end here. This is just the beginning.

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    • Sexual abuse

  • Belén López Peiró studied journalism and communication sciences in Buenos Aires University and has recently completed an MA in Creative Writing at the Barcelona’s Pompeu Fabra University. She currently coordinates non-fiction writing workshops with a gender perspective. Why Did You Come Back Every Summer is her debut novel. It received rave reviews, and has become a literary, social and political phenomenon in her country and beyond. In 2021 she published her second book Donde no hago pie (Nowhere to Stand) which narrates the legal process the author went through to bring her abuser to justice.

  • What they do: ‘Charco Press focuses on finding outstanding contemporary Latin American literature and bringing it to new readers in the English-speaking world. We aim to act as a cultural and linguistic bridge for you to be able to...

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