A story about the difficulty of finding a place when you are not born with one.

Since winning a drawing contest in second grade, Anna has known that having a talent also means carrying a promise: not to disappoint. That first prize, a case of markers, suddenly became the self-imposed obligation to always paint better, to surpass that bar. That is why, when, already in her thirties, she is offered an opportunity that could catalyze her career as a visual artist, something inside her breaks.

The call from Maria Manzoni, the most important gallery owner in the country and a highly influential figure in private contemporary art collecting, triggers a deep creative and existential crisis. Anna then faces not only market pressure but also the memory of a childhood marked by rejection and guilt, a foundational friendship that crumbles, and the suspicion that she may have betrayed something important along the way.

La boca llena de trigo is the story of a child prodigy who has now become a woman trapped in a blank canvas. A story about chance, about the tension between freedom and obedience, about the desire to be honest with who you are and what you carry. A reflection on self-demand, imposture, and the emotional and economic precariousness faced by those trying to make their way in a world still anchored to the fiction of meritocracy.

With a vivid, ironic, and sharp writing style, Mayte Gómez Molina debuts in narrative with a deeply intimate novel in which the vertigo of being seen and the fear of not measuring up become a radical commitment to care, for oneself and others, as a form of resistance. A novel in which art is not a theme but a wound: what hurts, what saves, what unites us.