{"product_id":"blood-red-9781632063304","title":"Blood Red","description":"\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe exhilarating English-language debut from celebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Ponce, \u003ci\u003eBlood Red\u003c\/i\u003e centers the female body in a radical exploration of desire, choice, and consequences.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIn a torrent of stream-of-consciousness fragments, the unnamed narrator of \u003ci\u003eBlood Red\u003c\/i\u003e recounts the aftermath of her failed marriage in explicit, sensual detail. She falls in and out of love, parties with her friends, skates around the city at night, does a lot of drugs, and gives in to her impulses. Her internal monologue is punctuated by bouts of trypophobia, an obsessive cataloging of holes that empty, fill, widen, and threaten to swallow her entirely. Blood courses through her every encounter from periods, fights, accidents, wounds, sex, streaming to and from her holey fixation. Blood is a vibrant reminder of her physicality, a manifestation of her interiority, a link to memories and sensations—until its abrupt absence changes everything. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eProvocative and raw, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlood Red\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a fierce portrayal of a woman navigating the gray—or red—zones of her uncertainties and paradoxical urges. A subversive grappling with what it means to wrest power over one’s body, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003erevels in the narrator’s autonomy to make choices and face the outcomes, no matter the scale.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Gabriela Ponce","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42961060921462,"sku":"9781632063304","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_23cb18e9-8621-4e75-bf64-95f464a09ac9.jpg?v=1767861081","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/blood-red-9781632063304","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}