Book, Jaw[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. In this disturbing and polyphonic, terrible and hypnotic novel, Mónica Ojeda recreates a world of the monstrous, merciless and limitless feminine, where danger and desire reign like a fascinating two-headed goddess. Fernanda, an insolent high school student with a passion for literature and horror films, wakes up with her hands and feet tied in a cabin in the middle of the forest. Her kidnapper, however, is no stranger. This is Miss Clara, the Literature teacher, a woman haunted by the memory of her own mother and harassed for months by her students at Colégio Bilíngue Delta, an elite Catholic school. Quickly, the reasons for the kidnapping will reveal themselves to be much more complex and darker than revenge for the trauma suffered by the teacher. With an imaginative and surprising text, Ecuadorian Mónica Ojeda creates in this novel not only disconcerting characters, but also a disturbing setting for a narrative with nuances and tenuous contours between horror, desire and perversity, investing in the relationships between teachers and students, mothers and daughters, sisters and friends of the heart. Here, fear and its relationship to family ties, sexuality and the violence that stalks love are expressed, often literally, through the fierce biting and almost sexual attack, the painful games and the almost dependent trust between girls and women who connect, but also betray each other. The kidnapping revealed in the first pages will be just the beginning of a terrifying and addictive journey through Mónica Ojeda's writing.