El salto de la araña

How did Javier and Alba get here? Where did it all begin? What happened between them so that one night in August 2018 the police entered their house in Vilafamés (Castellón) to arrest them? Where and when was the magic of life cut short and tragedy hatched? Javier, who is now waiting in the Carmel neighborhood of Barcelona in the days before the trial against him and Alba, decides through his memories to explore within himself the life path that led them to the tragedy. About Alba, you have little or no news, your lives were cut short that August night in Vilafamés, or had it already been broken before? With the help of Dani, his best childhood friend, and the silences of a neighborhood where everyone knows each other, Javier remembers and writes his story, and reveals that life sometimes gives you much more than surprises, as the song preaches by Rubén Blades. Reality and fiction intertwine in this novel written in the first person, a story of ordinary people in which we can recognize ourselves. Who has not wanted to retrace their steps and undo what was done? From the sincerity and perspective that recounting what she experienced gives, Graziella Moreno tells us about love, friendship, vulnerability, guilt and forgiveness. Because assuming our mistakes helps us understand who we are. Because there are not always second chances. Or maybe yes.