AND YOU, WHAT ANIMAL ARE YOU?

The fierce and addictive stories from one of the most original voices in contemporary Spanish narrative: a wild, disturbing, and unexpectedly loving book

There is a teenager dressed as a leopard seeking tenderness at a party while waging a war against her own desire. There are gazelles that devour lions. There are girls who hide violence beneath their patterned skin. There are bodies that mutate, camouflage, and learn to show their teeth. In these stories, victims become executioners and executioners demand love. The jungle is not outside; it beats beneath clothing, beneath makeup, beneath language, and each story opens a crack in the everyday. It forces us to face what we would rather tame: desire, identity, wounds, motherhood, cruelty.

Animal print is a book of contemporary fables where the wild and the human exchange masks. Cuevas writes as if stroking with one hand and scratching with the other, with prose that is fierce and delicate at the same time, lyrical and sharp, turning each story into a funhouse mirror where beneath every skin there is another animal waiting for its moment to reveal itself.

Because we all carry a beast inside. And even the most brutal one keeps searching for love.