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A slow burn of a novel offering an excellent blend of horror, folktale and examinations of queer identities, Monstrilio confronts ideas of grief, family, sexuality and, ultimately, that we cannot hide our true selves. Luckily for Monstrilio, or M as he is later called, he is loved despite his ravenous appetite for flesh (working his way up from cats to whole humans over the course of the novel), and over the four perspectives in the novel Córdova explores ideas of family, both found family and blood lineage. Not unlike the latter, Monstrilio involves life being created from dead organs-a lung in this case-and the subsequent struggles of parenting this creation. Or look how this sort of grief arrives in fiction, such as Pet Sematary by King or even the reincarnation of dead body parts in Frankenstein. Yeats, who reunited with the father of her deceased son and had sex on his coffin thinking it would bring him back (and the sadness that the conceived child, Iseult, was never considered her daughter after and left out of Maud’s will). Take Maud Gonne for instance, the Irish revolutionary and long time love interest of poet W.B. There are few griefs more shattering than the death of a child and one might do the strangest things in grief to try and recover that loss, often with more sadness to follow. ‘ One believes the stupidest things in grief,’ Gerardo Sámano Córdova writes in his debut novel, the literary horror Monstrilio. Told in four acts that span the globe from Brooklyn to Berlin, Monstrilio offers, with uncanny clarity, a cathartic and precise portrait of being human. Eventually, Monstrilio begins to resemble the Santiago he once was, but his innate impulses-though curbed by his biological and chosen family’s communal care-threaten to destroy this fragile second chance at life.Ī thought-provoking meditation on grief, acceptance, and the monstrous sides of love and loyalty, Gerardo Sámano Córdova blends bold imagination and evocative prose with deep emotional rigor. Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale, she nurtures the lung until it gains sentience, growing into the carnivorous little Monstrilio she keeps hidden within the walls of her family’s decaying Mexico City estate. Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago’s lung. A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man, and the people who love him in every form he takes

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