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Empty Set
Empty Set | Verónica Gerber Bicecci
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"Verónica Gerber writes with a luminous intimacy; her novel is clever, vibrant, moving, profoundly original. Reading it made me feel as if the world had been rebuilt." —Francisco Goldman "From the very beginning, Verónica Gerber set out to write a novel that would end up at a loss for words. She alone could achieve this feat: because she's a visual artist who takes everything she reads in as concentric circles threaded with color, and because she writes essays on painters who write across canvasses and writers who paint plots from the realities of life. . . . She alone could bring the necessary silence to a novel so perfect it ended up leaving me speechless as well." —Jorge F. Hernández How do you draw an affair? A family? Can a Venn diagram show the ways overlaps turn into absences, 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. Verónica Gerber Bicecci is a visual artist who writes. In 2013 she was awarded the third Aura Estrada prize for literature. She is an editor with Tumbona Ediciones, a publishing cooperative with a catalogue that explores the intersections between literature and art.
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Bertha_Mason
Empty Set | Verónica Gerber Bicecci
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Mood.

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Bertha_Mason
Empty Set | Verónica Gerber Bicecci

"It‘s a weird feeling to arrive at a place that corresponds to you, but where you don‘t belong. To recognize a street you didn‘t grow up on. Sleep, eat, take a shower in a house that should be just around the corner from your own. Wander through a neighborhood you didn‘t play in. Chat with people you never knew. Find a space just your size, but be unable to fill it."

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Bertha_Mason
Empty Set | Verónica Gerber Bicecci
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Ah, I too remember myspace. 🙄

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Bertha_Mason
Empty Set | Verónica Gerber Bicecci
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Bertha_Mason
Empty Set | Verónica Gerber Bicecci

"When an event is inexplicable, a hole is created somewhere. So we are full of holes, like Swiss cheese. Holes inside holes."

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Bertha_Mason
Empty Set | Verónica Gerber Bicecci

"It finally occurred to me to look up hypothetical titles in the library catalog. Perhaps someone had already written about everything I needed to know at that moment: On the Analysis of Time in a Pine Plywood Board, Depictions of Time in Wood, Grain Lines and Time: A Theory of Chaos and other such combinations that, naturally, didn‘t yield any results."

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Bertha_Mason
Empty Set | Verónica Gerber Bicecci

"Not saying anything was enough. It‘s easy to let others fill the gaps. A sufficiently ambiguous expression can convert someone else‘s monologue into an imaginary conversation. Silence is a variable that constantly mutates, so it‘s the other who decides if it‘s a yes, a no, or any other response."

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MatthewBurris
Empty Set | Verónica Gerber Bicecci
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Time to get back to this one

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