“Chimbote Highway” by Julia Wong Kcomt

“Chimbote Highway” is a translation of an excerpt from the novel Aquello que perdimos en la arena by tusán/Chinese Peruvian writer Julia Wong Kcomt. This novel excerpt was published in print in Issue 65 of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. Translated from Spanish.

McSweeney’s is an independent nonprofit publishing company based in San Francisco. As well as operating a daily humor website, they also publish Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Illustoria, and an ever-growing selection of books under various imprints. Guest-edited by Valeria Luiselli with Heather Cleary, McSweeney’s 65: Plundered spans the American continent, from a bone-strewn Peruvian desert to inland South Texas to the streets of Mexico City, and considers the violence that shaped it. In fifteen bracing stories, the collection delves into extraction, exploitation, and defiance. How does a community, an individual, resist the plundering of land and peoples?

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