The Attack of the Goats, Laura Chivite

After a decade of not knowing anything about her, the narrator of this novel surprises Aunt Lidia sitting in a café in Madrid. That moment, like a ghostly apparition, triggers a series of memories, and the two years the protagonist lived with her aunt cascade back.

El ataque de las cabras is a coming-of-age story, but also a family chronicle that will delight readers. With a narrative flow that alternates the emotional development typical of early youth with the hilarious fables of an insolent goat, the narrator will gradually uncover tragicomic family secrets that will allow her to understand her family's eccentricities.

Like a magician who perhaps became a writer to cast her spells in the form of stories, Laura Chivite displays her undeniable talent and unique sense of humor to explore the passage of time with its sorrows and disappointments, revealing, page after page, exquisite wisdom.