Elena Knows by Claudia Pineiro games peeking through well-lit windows at

peeking through well-lit windows at two little girls

growing tips

her identity and even her name

of indigence and immortality

Elena Knows by Claudia Pineiro games peeking through well-lit windows atA fierce, tender collection of stories about the lives, traumas, and dreams of Mapuche youth in modern day Chile. Jess, Valeska, Yajaira, and Ale are some of the vivid characters that inhabit the stories told in Pien , a book that casts an unflinching gaze on the stark margins of urban life. Within its pages unfold the bullet ridden death of a big shot from the blocks; the fraught, often violated sexuality of women in a displaced community; the