Catalina Infante Beovic is a Chilean writer, publisher, journalist, and teacher. She is the co-author of three books of short stories on the indigenous peoples of Chile, authored the picture book Dichos Redichos and the artist’s book Postal Nocturna, and in 2018 published her first book of stories, Todas somos una misma sombra.
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In this story of lengthy quarantine due to an unnamed virus, a woman sneaks into the mountain to collect ferns—many ferns. Simultaneously evoking life und...