Bottles

Alcina Lubitch Domecq

1984

Mom was taken away, I don’t know exactly where. Dad says she is in a nice place where they take good care of her. I miss her…although I understand. Dad says she suffered from a sickening love for bottles. First she started to buy them in the supermarket. All sorts of bottles—plastic and crystal, small and big. Everything had to be packed in a…

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Alcina Lubitch Domecq

b. 1953

Alcina Lubitch Domecq, born in Guatemala and living in Israel, is the author of a novel and a collection of short stories. Her works have been influenced by Jewish mysticism, Yiddish literature, Jorges Luis Borges, and Italo Calvino.

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