Through the Forest

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The latest novel by the acclaimed author of "The House of Rabbits," a harrowing story based on true events. On a cold December morning in 1984, Griselda, an Argentine exile in France, wakes up with a severe headache. After unsuccessfully seeking help from her husband Claudio, she returns home, fills the bathtub, and drowns her two youngest children. The eldest, Flavia, just six years old, survives because she is at school. Thirty years later, Laura Alcoba interviews the survivors of this tragedy and, without unraveling the mystery of Griselda's act, attempts to approach the inconceivable. When asked about her mother, Flavia, now a successful photographer, describes her as "present, loving. Very loving." Following the "Trilogy of the House of Rabbits," Laura Alcoba offers a dazzling and disturbing narrative about the darkness hidden in the most everyday relationships and the possibility of choosing love and forgiveness.