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Small Labors is a singular and intoxicating literary amalgamation that finds its main source of inspiration in the fascinating The Book of the Pillow, the masterpiece of the Heian period written by the court lady Sei Shonagon. As in that magnificent digressive essay, the inaugural piece of the genre known as zuihitsu, Galchen's prose crosses the boundaries of genres to reveal to us the sorrows, weaknesses, and musings of an exceptional writer who goes through the common and at the same time extraordinary experience of life. motherhood with enormous insight and a sense of humor. A prodigious cabinet of curiosities, stories, lists and notes composed from the amazement of her own experience by one of the most sensitive, talented and elegant authors of our time.