Voyager

Accompanying her mother on her neurological exams, the narrator of this book notes that the brain activity projected on the monitor has many similarities to the astronomical images she knows. From this observation, Nona Fernández begins in this, her first essay, to examine the mechanisms of stellar and human memory. Taking note of everything he reads, observes and thinks, in the Voyager way, those exploratory space probes, Fernández links that record to his own history and that of the country, intelligently raising issues that are now and forever. How stars and people remember are questions that inevitably lead to wondering how peoples remember, and how they forget, and Nona Fernández approaches them with the sagacity and impetus that characterize her work.