Brickmakers Running the Goat Books wrapped in a downy blanket

wrapped in a downy blanket

and unboundaried solidarity

a dazzling new novel about memory and identity

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Brickmakers Running the Goat Books wrapped in a downy blanketA piercing and passionate novel, set in rural Argentina, about violence and masculinity Oscar Tamai and Elvio Miranda, the patriarchs of two families of brickmakers, have for years nursed a mutual hatred, but their teenage sons, Pjaro and ngelito, somehow fell in love. Brickmakers begins as Pjaro and Marciano, ngelitos older brother, lie dying in the mud at the base of a Ferris wheel. Inhabiting a dreamlike state between life and death, they recall