Eating Ashes - Ceniza en la boca

In Ceniza en la boca (Eating Ashes), Brenda Navarro novelizes the emotional journey of a young woman who senses the reasons behind her teenage brother's suicide and experiences her own Ulysses syndrome, in which neither the departure nor the return are really the destination. A story of separations and abandonment, of longing and rage, of loss and initiation into life, in which the author courageously tackles elusive issues such as inequality, xenophobia and uprooting, confirming her status as one of the most powerful and daring narrators in our literature. Intense, visceral and devastating, Ceniza en la boca is a book that burns and raises the painful question of what life is worth living.

In the first activity of the Aljamía 2026 cycle, a meeting point for Spanish literature in English translation in Los Angeles, UCLA professor Maite Zubiaurre talks to Mexican author Brenda Navarro about her book, recently published in the United States.