A review by bookglutton
Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro

4.5

Elena Knows was fine. But then I kept reading: fine became good in part two and in the third and final part, great. The juxtaposition between different kinds of bodily autonomy was so well done. Who does our body ultimately belong to? Our minds? Perhaps the minds of those who carry our ashes or visit our graves? And what does it mean to be a mother? Is it an identity or merely a role, a noun or a verb?