“ A moving, urgent and beautiful novel. A lightning strike to the heart .” Mónica Ojeda, author of Jawbone
Six seconds. A body crashing to the ground. An image that haunts her forever. When the narrator’s younger brother Diego takes his own life, she is plagued with questions, beset with crippling grief and with guilt. Returning to the Mexico of their childhood, Diego’s sister looks back on their early childhood, their mother’s abrupt departure in search of a better life, and the long wait to be reunited with her. Translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell, Eating Ashes both heartbreaking and full of flashes of dark humour.
Brenda Navarro’s debut novel, Empty Houses, won the Tigre Juan Award. Eating Ashes won the Cálamo and CEGAL prizes and the Madrid Bookseller Award, and was a finalist for the Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Novel Prize. Brenda is a scriptwriter and regular contributor to El Pais newspaper and other outlets. Originally from Mexico City, she lives in Madrid.
In conversation with writer, essayist and critic, Naoise Dolan, author of best-selling novels Exciting Times and The Happy Couple.