Fugaz

If there is a story that undoubtedly collapses the idyllic and sweetened vision of motherhood, that is undoubtedly Fugaz. The protagonist of it experiences pregnancy and parenting as a flight forward, a way of letting go of moorings in which each stage is a new beginning, an apprenticeship for which no one has prepared her. The truth is that not everything is bad in the relationship between this young mother and her newborn, but on this trip, an adventure through Argentine territory, the reader will see that child grow up, claim the mother's breast until she is exhausted. , and her despair and even doubt that life without handles. Until mother and son end up in a distant place on the Argentine coast, where nobody knows why, like a macabre offering from the earth, the whales are stranded.