The Road to Matamá

The Road to Matamá is a fictional memoir that explores what it means to grieve across borders. After the death of her father—whom she hadn't seen in sixteen years—a Venezuelan writer leaves Los Angeles for a rural corner in Galicia to confront his ghost and find meaning among the ruins of her own story.Told as a raw, confessional diary, the book leaps through time: from a chaotic present shaped by loss, mental disorder, and the weight of exile, to a past fractured by displacement, bureaucracy, and nostalgia for a homeland left behind. In this literary jungle, the author traces an emotional map back to a place that no longer exists and must be invented. Read more