Ramifications

First English-language edition published 2020

Cover design by Kyle G. Hunter

Book design by Rachel Holscher

Author photograph © Ángel Valenzuela

Translator photograph courtesy of the translator

First published in Spanish as El nervio principal (Mexico City: Sexto Piso, 2018)

Images on the front cover are from iStock.com: antique children’s book © ilbusca; camouflage pattern © Laures; tropical leaves © pernsanitfoto; and origami bird © Kuliperko.

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Names: Saldaña París, Daniel, 1984– author. | MacSweeney, Christina, translator.

Title: Ramifications / Daniel Saldaña París ; translated Christina MacSweeney.

Other titles: Nervio principal. English

Description: First English-language edition. | Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2020. | “First published in Spanish as El nervio principal (Mexico City: Sexto Piso, 2018)”—T.p. verso.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020002758 | ISBN 9781566895965 (trade paperback)

Classification: LCC PQ7298.429.A43 N4713 2020 | DDC 863/.7—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020002758

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