The publisher themselves notes, regarding the book: “
What is this gut-sensation that overwhelms me as I head to the family event I have scheduled for today?
And that anxiety that stays here, with me, after the phone conversation with my mother or with my father? Why do I always get sick at Christmas? Why does every Christmas Eve dinner become a trigger for panic attacks and reverberations of trauma? Why does returning to the family home end up translating into a rise in therapy sessions?
De comida familiar is an exploration of the violences, the harms, or the daily suffocations that find their roots in family dysfunction and mistreatment. Through a reflection that interweaves theory and experiential material, first-person testimonies and works of fiction and popular culture, Alicia Álvarez Vaquero invites us to pass through once again those distressing and unresolved moments in which family trauma is formed. But to go through them is not to wallow in our wound but, precisely, to come out of it.”
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Author: Alicia Álvarez Vaquero. Title: De comida familiar. Publisher: Cielo Santo. For sale: All your books.