![]() In 2013 she was awarded the third Aura Estrada Prize for Literature. ![]() Verónica Gerber Bicecci is a visual artist who writes. A spare, artfully constructed meditation on loss, both personal and national.” (…) Within the deliberately fractured text, themes echo and time folds and unfolds. “Bicecci’s debut novel concerns itself with time, disappearance, Venn diagrams, and the circularity of the universe. How do you draw an affair? A family? Can a Venn diagram show the ways overlaps turn into absences? Can tree rings tell us what happens when mothers leave? Can we fall in love according to the hop-skip of an acrostic? Empty Set is a novel of patterns, its young narrator’s attempt at making sense of inevitable loss, tracing her way forward in loops, triangles, and broken lines. In Empty Set, a Venn diagram for love, Bicecci’s narrator traces and reconstructs her relationships using geometry, ice cores, and tree rings. ![]()
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