The Place Where the Grass Grows
by Luisa Josefina Hernández
The extraordinary ability that Luisa Josefina Hernández displays in her drama acquires a different dimension in her novels. The author once said: “When I write a novel I’m free in time and space. There are no producers, no directors nor actors… nothing. Just me and the text”. The Place Where the Grass Grows, which was published for the first time in 1956 by the Universidad Veracruzana Press, presents a protagonist that submerges herself into the most subtle faces of her conflict. Imprisoned in her house due to a false robbery accusation, she writes a notebook to her first love that is at the same time an intimate and deep reflection about her situation and her identity as a woman.