abortion, which was eventually approved by the National Congress on 30th December 2020.
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Elena Knows also asks the reader to put themselves in Elena’s unenviable place of age and infirmity.
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both women come to realise that not knowing, and not fitting into neat categories, is something that they share
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Rita is seen to rigidly accept the church’s doctrines to the extent of imposing them on a stranger, preventing Isabel from having the abortion she desperately wants; indeed Rita and her middle-aged boyfriend Roberto are ‘united by their convictions […] about how another person should experience something they themselves had never experienced’ (p.88).
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The story traces an arc from hubris to humility on Elena’s part, and from conviction to despair on the part of her daughter, Rita, though this trajectory is masked by a non-chronological development.
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Elena Knows goes beyond its elements of crime investigation to raise urgent ethical questions, challenge religious hypocrisy and shake Catholic dogma to its
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which is Piñeiro’s most sustained intervention, through the medium of fiction, in the long campaign to legalise abortion.
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, I think she couldn’t stand that you had it.
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She thought a more accurate mantra would be shit, shit, shit.
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d I’m condemned to watch as her body dies without her dying.