Alina, Laura, Doris.

Three modern women experience motherhood differently. Biological instinct, family expectations, career dreams, and social demands lead them to diverse decisions. Conception, abortion, sterilization, miscarriage, childbirth: the female body becomes a field of conflicting forces between free choice and imposed decision.

Guadalupe Nettel, who has become one of the most important representatives of contemporary Latin American literature, records the countless forms of motherhood, the battles, the dramas, as well as the ways in which we ultimately learn to love.

An intensely charged novel about what family means today, written with touching tenderness and humanity.