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*Ciutat de Barcelona Award 2023*

*Openbank Award for Literature by Vanity Fair as Best New Author*

“This novel by an editor passionate about literature is a gem.”
– Mercedes Milá

A novel about anxiety and the healing power of the stories of the women who came before us. A journey through personal wounds and universal struggles, told through art and literature.

“On December 20, 2015, I became a mother and lost my mind. […] That same day, Spain was voting in the first elections where a new party participated […], and the hope for change hovered over the day. By nightfall, while I was counting contractions in the delivery room, the country was counting seats in Congress. And both counts merged into a new life for me, because one of those seats was going to be mine. On the very day my children were born, I became a member of Congress.”

What should have been the happiest day in the narrator’s life turns into the beginning of a story of madness. Anxiety takes hold of her, and the weight of the world falls on her shoulders twofold: she must care for her newborn twins and give voice to those who placed their trust in her.

This story delves into a personal wound to connect with universal struggles. It is a journey through art, literature, mythology, and the history of medicine. With mastery, Mar García Puig transforms personal experience into a narrative that speaks to all the women who have ever felt their sanity slipping away and all the men who have silenced them under the guise of centuries of science, myths, and politics.

María del Mar García Puig es una filóloga, editora y política española, que fue diputada por Barcelona en el Congreso de los Diputados desde 2016 hasta 2023. En la XIV legislatura del Congreso fue vicepresidenta primera de la Comisión de Igualdad.