Madeline Jones (@MadelineCJones) is a literary translator and book editor at Algonquin Books. She is currently completing a master’s degree in translation studies at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and lives between Barcelona and New York. Her first book-length translation, María Elena Morán's Volver a cuándo, is forthcoming from Knopf.
J. Williams / Unsplash.comIn this excerpt from María Elena Morán’s Premio Café Gijón–winning novel, Volver a cuándo (Siruela, 2022), a woman in a refugee camp takes stock of her belonging…