‘The Big Family’, by Antònia Carré-Pons: A domestic story that avoids self-pity

La Rateta and la Sió, the two sisters who are the protagonists of La gran família, the new novel by this great publisher who is Antònia Carré-Pons (Terrassa, 1960) —if you consult the catalogue of her publishing house, Cal Carré, you will want to have it complete in your library—, visit an exhibition, and in the painting of a bird —a dove, an eagle?— that takes flight in the middle of a sea and a sky full of clouds that conjure the imminence of …