The Affliction
2018
First Published
4.20
Average Rating
170
Number of Pages
A man who can disappear; a woman who can see the future; a boy who kills his brother and loses the ability to speak; a man raised in a cult who now believes he is destined to die: The Affliction is a novel in stories that artfully weaves together the lives of its characters in ways both surprising and, in the end, inevitable. Diego Flores meets Ricardo Blanco, a damaged man who tells him about Javier Castillo, a man he once knew who could vanish into thin air. This sets into motion a chain of events that not only transforms Diego's life but that of many others.
Avg Rating
4.20
Number of Ratings
30
5 STARS
50%
4 STARS
27%
3 STARS
17%
2 STARS
7%
1 STARS
0%
goodreads
Author
C. Dale Young
Author · 7 books
C. Dale Young is the author of five collections of poetry, including Prometeo (Four Way Books 2021), and a novel-in-stories, The Affliction, published by Four Way Books in 2018. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, Young practices medicine full-time and teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.
