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A Petit Mal

A Petit Mal

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Available NOW | Memoir / Medical Essay / Creative Non-fiction 

Finalist - Health/Wellness (Non-Fiction) Next Generation Indie Book Awards, 2024

Finalist - Grief/Grieving (Adult Non-Fiction) Foreword Reviews INDIES Book of the Year Awards, 2023.

The Winner of The International Beverly Prize For Literature, 2020

When Ana Maria Caballero’s young son is diagnosed with epilepsy, her family collides with the reality of illness, but also with Western medicine. A Petit Mal follows the narrative arc of this blunt collision, one that plunges its readers into multiple alternative methods of healing and the spiritual implications therein.

Caballero’s boldly innovative book unfolds as a page-turner, one whose topics are especially relevant to audiences interested in wellness, not as yet another banner, but as a committed, practical approach to life.

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Ana Maria Caballero

is a first-generation Colombian-American poet and artist. Her first book of poetry, Entre domingo y domingo, won Colombia’s José Manuel Arango National Poetry Prize and was second place in the nationwide Ediciones Embajales Prize. She graduated with a magna cum laude degree from Harvard University and has been a runner-up for the Academy of Amercian Poets Prize. A Petit Mal was awarded the International Beverly Prize and was also a finalist for the Kurt Brown Prize, the Tarpaulin Sky Press Book Awards, the Essay Press Prize, the Split/Lip Press reading cycle and longlisted for the 2022 Memoir Prize.