Fiction
The Summer of the Serpent
by Cecilia Eudave
This novel is made of stories with different perspectives that make and shape each of the characters. We attend the decisive moment in the life of a family going through a summer that glides in an unsettling manner, revealing the secrets that each of them keeps. Secrets that confront them and force them to grow. To each chapter we add clues to complete an existential puzzle, where each one has his or her fraction of guilt and innocence. All taken from imagination of certainties of two girls who begin to discover the world from fantasy. At a travelling fair, Maricarmen, the eldest of two sisters, has her fortune read by a serpent-woman; the resulting prophecy is both cryptic and frightening. From that point onwards, the sisters’ lives, and the lives of those close to them, start circling around a real-life boa who lurks around their neighbourhood, and the haunting apparition of a woman.
