Stubborn Archivist, Yara Rodrigues Fowler
Stubborn Archivist, Yara Rodrigues Fowler
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Stubborn Archivist

Author: Yara Rodrigues Fowler

Narrator: Carolina Santos Read

Unabridged: 5 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/16/2019


Synopsis

But where are you really from?

When your mother considers another country home, it's hard to know where you belong. When the people you live among can't pronounce your name, it's hard to know exactly who you are. And when your body no longer feels like your own, it's hard to understand your place in the world.

In Stubborn Archivist, a young British Brazilian woman from South London navigates growing up between two cultures and into a fuller understanding of her body, relying on signposts such as history, family conversation, and the eyes of the women who have shaped her—her mother, grandmother, and aunt. Our stubborn archivist takes us through first love and loss, losing and finding home, trauma and healing, and various awakenings of sexuality and identity. Shot through the novel are the narrator's trips to Brazil, sometimes alone, often with family, where she accesses a different side of herself—one, she begins to realize, that is as much of who she is as anything else.

A hypnotic and bold debut, Stubborn Archivist is as singular as its narrator; a novel you won't soon forget.

About Yara Rodrigues Fowler

Yara Rodrigues Fowler was born in 1992. She grew up in a British Brazilian household in Balham, South London, where she is still based. She has a BA from Oxford University and an MA from UCL, and is a trustee of Latin American Women's Aid. Stubborn Archivist is her first book.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Gumble's Yard - Golden Reviewer on October 07, 2022

Like the author the main character of this freewheeling, unconventional novel was born and lived in South London to a English father and Brazilian mother; and the sense of liminality, of being between, of being neither/nor and of being other (perceived exotic foreigner in England, as privileged and......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on July 05, 2019

Stubborn Archivist is the sort of book that manages to feel both brilliant and incomplete - that's the impression that I'm left with upon finishing it. Debut novelist Yara Rodrigues Fowler comes out of the gate strong with this book, which is an offbeat piece of auto-fiction that blends poetry and p......more