What the Forest Devours: A Novel

“Elaine Vilar Madruga is a powerful, elegant, and daring voice. I want to read everything she writes." — MARIANA ENRIQUEZ

In this award-winning horror novel from Latin America, a community of women and children—and one man—fight for survival in a harsh and terrifying Cuban rainforest where the gods require appeasement through brutal sacrifice.

The forest is a terrifying, hungry god with harsh rules and a ravenous appetite that must be fed. In this ruthless world mothers raise their children a...