Verónica Gerber writes with a luminous intimacy; her novel is clever,
vibrant, moving, profoundly original. Reading it made me feel as if the
world had been rebuilt. --Francisco Goldman
From the very beginning, Verónica Gerber set out to write a novel that
would end up at a loss for words. She alone could achieve this feat:
because she's a visual artist who takes everything she reads in as
concentric circles threaded with color, and because she writes essays on
painters who write across canvasses and writers who paint plots from the
realities of life. . . . She alone could bring the necessary silence to
a novel so perfect it ended up leaving me speechless as well. --Jorge F.
Hernández
How do you draw an affair? A family? Can a Venn diagram show the ways
overlaps turn into absences, tree rings tell us what happens when
mothers leave? Can we fall in love according to the hop skip of an
acrostic? Empty Set is a novel of patterns, its young narrator's attempt
at making sense of inevitable loss, tracing her way forward in loops,
triangles, and broken lines.
Verónica Gerber Bicecci is a visual artist who writes. In 2013 she
was awarded the third Aura Estrada prize for literature. She is an
editor with Tumbona Ediciones, a publishing cooperative with a catalogue
that explores the intersections between literature and art.
