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AMERICA ALUCINADA
In an unnamed city some disillusioned young people start a back-to-nature movement: they leave behind their children and go to live in the woods. Some time later, the the local deer begin to act strangely, become aggressive. América alucinada Delusional America) tells the story of three people: Berenice, a girl who has apparently been abandoned by her mother; Beryl, an elderly ex-hippie who founds a hunting club to eliminate the deer and Vik, an immigrant who discovers that a woman has been sleeping in his house during the day. Charming, complex characters in a high-tension plot that surprises the reader at every step. With her characteristic original and intriguing style . Betina González has produced a novel that reflects on the rupture of the ties of solidarity in contemporary capitalism and offers a disturbing story about our collective Utopias.