Carnival of Atrocities

The residents of a desolate town nestled in the Ecuadorian Andes are forced to reckon with the legend of Mildred, a girl wronged by the town years agoCocun, a desolate town nestled between the hot jungle and the frigid Andes, is about to slip away from memory. This is where Mildred was born, and where everything she hadher animals, her home, her landswas taken from her after her mothers death. Years later, a series of strange events, disappearances, and outbursts of collective delirium will force its residents to reckon with the legend of old Mildred. Once again, they will feel the shadow of death that has hung over the town ever since she was wronged. The voices of nine charactersMildred, Ezequiel, Agustina, Manzi, Carmen, Vctor, Baltasar, Hermosina, and Filateliotell us of the past and present of that doomed place and Mildred's fate.Natalia Garca Freires vivid language blurs the lines between dreams and reality and transports the reader to the hypnotic Andean universe of Ecuador.