A review by jamgrl
La uruguaya by Pedro Mairal

emotional reflective

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

Pedro Mairal is an Argentinian author who won a Spanish literary award, el Premio Tigre Juan, for this book. Pretty cool for a book I picked up based on spine thickness and knowing nothing about! I wasn’t sure if I would like this book since cheating is a central theme of the book (this is not a spoiler, it’s pretty clear in the summary) but I really liked it. It is a thoughtful analysis of marriage and co-parenting and love and desire and financial struggle and class expectations. It also contains surprises! It is very poetic in style, which was challenging for me at times, not gonna lie, but there was plenty of dialogue easy for me to follow- this was a good stretch for my Spanish reading comprehension ☺️.