My debut book Turn to the Stars is out now from Shabby Doll House.
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“In a captivating and luminous journey this book conjures up history, family memories, and cosmology to engage readers in a brave search for home and identity. From the Argentina of our tragedies, Sevilla Aho rises to the stars for answers with the courageous will to ‘see just how unclear the story is.’ Her tender and prophetic verse becomes a shield against despair.”
A mother arrested in the hospital after giving birth and imprisoned under Argentina’s military dictatorship.
A grandfather who crossed the Atlantic as an orphan and found solace in the occult.
A writer who inherits their search for belonging, moving between countries and languages, carrying the histories of those who came before her.
Sparked by an astrological document found in her grandfather’s office, Susana Sevilla Aho turns, in this lyrical hybrid memoir, to the wandering of planets—those original exiles—and to the cosmos as a place to belong when nations fail us.
Part family archive, part elegy, part star chart, Turn to the Stars traces one family’s history against an expanding sky.
Edited by Lucy K Shaw & Kristen Felicetti. Cover art & design by Kylie Alexander. Illustrations by Alison Tusick. ISBN:978-1-7379242-8-9
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