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After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their exhausted working mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and crime. To protect himself and those he loved from street violence, Andre learned to use his fists so well that he was even scared of himself. He was on a fast track to getting killed—or killing someone else—or to beatings-for-pay as a boxer.

Zibby Owens has become a well-known personality in the publishing world. Her infectious energy, tasteful authenticity, and smart, steadfast support of authors started in childhood, a precedent set by the profound effect books and libraries had on her own family. But after losing her closest friend on 9/11 and later becoming utterly stressed out and overwhelmed by motherhood, Zibby was forgetting what made her her. She turned to books and writing for help.

En octubre de 2006 muere Héctor Libertella, escritor de culto de la literatura argentina y padre de Mauro Libertella. Cuatro años después el hijo escribe esta novela, que recuerda los últimos días de su padre y también los momentos fundamentales de la relación entre los dos. Mi libro enterrado enhebra así el hilo dorado de un vínculo filial. Como una caja de resonancias en miniatura, es al mismo tiempo una despedida, un réquiem, un homenaje, una canción desesperada y un texto que relata una entrada a la literatura: un libro sobre cómo se escribe un primer libro.