About the Book: 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 as food, a
cannibalistic system of offerings and retribution from which there is no escape.
For women,