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False Calm - Maria Sonia Cristoff it is also a workPart reportage, part personal essay, part travelogue, False Calm finds Argentinian author Mara Sonia Cristoff writing against romantic portrayals of Patagonia as she journeys from one small town to the next. Cristoff returns home to chronicle the ghost towns left behind by the oil boom. She explores Patagonias complicated legacy through the lost stories of its people and the desolate places they inhabit. Everywhere, Cristoff blends superstition, myth