A striking, clever novel.--Publishers Weekly
Mara is a simultaneous interpreter who moves to a provincial town in
Argentina in order to speak as little as possible for a year. Steeled
with the ten rules of silence set out in her manual of rhetoric, she
takes a job as a guard in the local museum. The advantages of her work
are threatened when she's asked to assist in the re-embalming of the
museum's pride and joy: two horses--of great national and historical
significance--are disintegrating and must be saved. But her goal and her
slippery grasp on sanity lead her to more anarchistic means to bolster
her purpose. Bold, subversive, and threaded through with acerbic wit,
Include Me Out is an homage to silence and the impossibility of
achieving it.