Los astronautas by Laura Ferrero

All of us grow up knowing which people make up the members of our family and how we are all related. Everyone except the protagonist of this novel, who was never told she had a family. What happened to erase all traces of its presence? The Astronauts is the story of how she rediscovers an ecosystem lost in time. Thirty-five years later, a photograph found by chance showing a girl and her parents opens a window into the past, as well as the failures, silences and secrets upon which her identity was built. But history never tells the absolute truth, only one truth among many...

Laura Ferrero uses an episode from her own life as the basis for a gripping and sometimes devastating novel about the family stories instilled in us as children and which remain unquestioned until we develop the capacity to observe them from afar. Like astronauts, we must travel to the farthest limits possible, where no one has gone before, to fully understand what has always been within our reach.