Latin Omnivore
Naomi Tonlivre
January 13, 2023
ISBN 9798218098964 / Paperback / 384 pages / $22.99

A professor who has long preferred observation to intervention—a spectator to her own failing marriage, the troubles of her adult children, and the pettiness unfolding through college departmental politics—finds her detachment tested when she is approached by Mitra Leninov, a transfer student from Iran. Leninov beings with her a strange Latin manuscript, Pluvia, Ostium, Laboribus (Rain, Venom, Toil), insisting that it must be translated by none other than the professor herself. As the professor undertakes the translation, working through the text chapter by chapter, Leninov vanishes in a swirl of rumors and accusations. The professor is thrust into a crossroads: decide whether to believe the evidence as to the fraudulence of Leninov, or trust the student and seek out the deeper truths lurking beneath surface appearances.

Published in a single tête-bêche volume with Rain, Venom, Toil.