PositiveBookforumAguda’s narrative is steeped in the symbolic, the subjective, the mythic ... A novel about what it means to be a mother. It is less concerned with the daily struggles of motherhood—emotional estrangement from oneself and one’s child, the economics of keeping a younger being alive—than with the metaphysical: the idea that motherhood is a state of being that transcends the real, the tangible, the measurable ... Exquisite and hilarious ... Strange and unnerving ... Her satire often tips into outright fantasia ... Aguda is thinking about what the dispossessed and marginalized do, feel, and think when they attempt to claim that they matter, to have agency and power. Such attempts are neither pleasant nor effective in One Leg on Earth.
