We can all be each other's demon. We can all be that other's human sacrifice. Marí a Fernanda Ampuero, one of the essential voices of current Latin American literature, masterfully pushes us into a humid, rotten and hostile universe where violence marks the narrative of our lives. In that world stands a many-headed beast that terrorizes and bites the weak, the marginalized, the sacrificial for the sake of silence, inequality, hatred, abuse, death.