Absence Makes the Heart Grow: On Pedro Mairal’s “The Woman from Uruguay”

<div class="">Jeannine Burgdorf is a writer in Chicago. Her fiction has appeared in&nbsp;Signal House Edition&nbsp;and&nbsp;New Reader Magazine&nbsp;as well as the anthology&nbsp;Writer Shed Stories Vol. 2. Her nonfiction and book reviews have appeared in&nbsp;Quail Bell,&nbsp;Chicago&nbsp;Review of Books, and the INELDA website.</div>

Jeannine Burgdorf

Jeannine Burgdorf is a writer in Chicago. Her fiction has appeared in&nbsp;Signal House Edition&nbsp;and&nbsp;New Reader Magazine&nbsp;as well as the anthology&nbsp;Writer Shed Stories Vol. 2. Her nonfiction and book reviews have appeared in&nbsp;Quail Bell,&nbsp;Chicago&nbsp;Review of Books, and the INELDA website.