About the Book: What the Forest Devours
shocking… violence, motherhood and death in the jungle Mariana
Enríquez, author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Benedicta has given birth, over and over. But she will never be a mother.
Benedicta lives with her mother, her sister and her many children on a hacienda
surrounded by dense rainforest.
The jungle is a hungry god: it allows them to live safely away from a ruthless
world of guerrillas and drug traffickers, but at a terrible price. Its voracity
is never-ending, and those who live under its control must offer up their
children in a sacrificial