Due the unshakeable friendship of Flaca and Romina, this group of five queer women takes a journey to Cabo Polonio, a remote cape, where they are free to be themselves for a week. Consider the similarities and differences in the recounting of Paz, Romina and Malena’s experiences. The pacing felt a bit different upon reread; the story seemed to be faster but in more details at the same time. Mostly young and mainly single when they meet, they blossom and grow together and learn new ways to interweave with each other.

They end exactly where they should, and each comma, each word, is so artfully placed that the sentences flow, reflect your own thoughts. Pointedly relevant to our own dangerous age, Carolina De Robertis has gifted us a majestic work of song and imagination, a handbook to survival for us all.The characters, Romina, Flaca, La Venus, Paz, and Malena, each so different and well-developed; I could not have loved them more.

BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. What I cannot imagine is coming out during those dark times, I was lucky enough to discover my sexuality at the start of our democracy and even then it was hard enough. There begins an epic tale of intense friendships that span nearly 40 years through fiery loves and tragedy, intricate layers of character portrayals that wrung out every one of my emotions as they played out in such a natural way that it felt like the stories of real women.Cantoras is a beautiful and bold story of the power of friendship, female sexuality, political resistance, and social change. In between, the women find a way to sustain themselves in hope despite the brutal regime that exacts a toll in each of their lives. There was much about this novel I liked at first - the five main characters felt so real and the intensity of their group friendship was moving, as was their struggle to be lesbian in a patriarchal society run by a ruthless dictatorship.

Zmieniają się ich relacje, jedne związki się rozpadają, inne się pojawiają, a bohaterki powoli od siebie się oddalają, ale bezpieczna przystań na bezludziu wciąż jest wybawieniem od opresyjnej codzienności. De Robertis’s prose is most moving when it’s direct and unembellished, but her metaphors can be heavy-handed.

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