Humiliation.

Humiliation; Inner cities; Employment interviewing

Flores's strong debut collection provides an intimate look at characters in a Chile brimming with desperation and misfortune. In the title story, a father and his young daughters walk the streets as he desperately looks for work, only to end up humiliated when he arrives at what he thought was a job interview but is in fact a meeting with a modeling agency interested in his daughters. With ever-changing narrative perspectives, Flores's intense stories are tied together with dark, palpable emotion, portraying characters trapped in circumstances beyond their control. [Extracted from the article]