"Memory, of course, is sometimes like a bucking horse, sometimes a runaway one, and one must control the reins until finally it stops, snorting with exhausted relief," writes Natalie L. M. Petesch in her haunting new collection, The Confessions of Señora Francesca Navarro and Other Stories.Petesch

Natalie L. M. Petesch, in her haunting new collection The Confessions of Senora Francesa Navarro and Other Stories, immerses readers in the lives of people caught up in the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War, which left 500,000 dead. Brilliant in its imaginative power, and heartbreaking in its access to the bottomless well of human tears, The Confessions of Senora Francesa Navarro and Other Stories is the work of a mature artist able to convey a particular world so vividly that we know these people as our own.