Elena Alonso-Mira

It's just that you can't not stop reading.

It's sort of like an episode of a Netflix show.

It's like a telenovela, a melodrama, where you just watch one episode and you have to finish it.

And I think she did it this way because we're in a time where we get distracted really easily and we just need to just keep our attention focused.

So if we see a chance to stop, to pause, it's our chance to get up and go and do something else or to check our phones or whatever.

So we just see a coma and it's just the conversation keeps going.

We just need to keep reading.

And at the same time, it's sort of like also like a rap.

And I think this goes back to the roots, to the people and how people talk in this very colloquial way.

We just keep sometimes repeating the same things in a very different way.

And yeah, it's also very poetic.

So it's also like a short story where you have to start at the beginning and you cannot stop until the end because the action just keeps happening.

It doesn't really change.

It's just about this simple topic of let's find out who did it and how and why they did what they did.

Yeah.

Yes, it must have been a really difficult job, especially to not repeat the same insults over and over again, because the author is quite creative in that sense.

Yeah, and I had two different experiences reading it, both in like first in Spanish and then in English.

And it's good that I had read it already probably about two years ago.

And I forget the books I read like pretty much two months after.

So it was like reading it again.