I did not choose this: against the myth of the chosen family. In Txani Rodríguez's latest novel, La seca, we witness a conflict that I have never seen represented in all its thorny complexity until now.
The portrait of this social void, a kind of bullying among adult actors on a large scale, generates a clear and dull feeling of suffocation in me. It is a shame that in my adult life I have not known how to make room for the otherness that would probably have unraveled my seams.