A Little Luck by Claudia Piñeiro

Piñeiro's most recent work available in English gives us the story of Mary Lohan in the form of a logbook. Lohan was originally María Elena, and she left Argentina--and her husband, in something of a mad scramble--to assume her second identity two decades before, in the wake of an accident. It's not giving anything away to say that her homecoming unearths long-buried memories and grudges as this complex figure is once again forced to reckon with the accident that led to her flight.  A Little Luck, as is true of all Piñeiro's work, is a sharp exploration of Argentinian society. written with style and vitality,