Isabel Zapata is a Mexican author, editor and translator. She has just published 'Troika', her sixth book, a novel about grief, ghosts and memories.
Troika began as a letter to her daughter Aurelia, to whom she wanted to convey, for example, why it was better to grow up surrounded by dogs or to try to understand, with generosity, those who seem to make incomprehensible decisions. Grief is a topic Zapata has been obsessed with for years and that she believes has been treated in the wrong way.