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The house breathes. The house contains bodies and secrets. The house is visited by ghosts, by angels that line the roof like insects, and by saints that burn the bedsheets with their haloes. It was built by a smalltime hustler as a means of controlling his wife, and even after so many years, their daughter and her granddaughter can’t leave. More about this book >
Layla Martínez is the author of two nonfiction books in Spanish, Surrogate Pregnancy and Utopia is not an Island, as well as stories and articles in numerous anthologies. She has translated essays and novels, writes about music for El Salto, and about television for La Última Hora. Since 2014, she has co-directed the independent publisher Antipersona. Woodworm is her first novel.
(Photo credit: JM Lazaro-Castillo)
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