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Monstrilio: A Novel

Gerardo Sámano Córdova

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“Heartfelt, bizarre, and unexpected. . . . At once a novel about family and love, a creepy tale that questions what it means to be human, and a celebration of queer stories, _Monstrilio_ is as shocking as it is profound, and as humorous as it is thoughtful.”

—Gabino Iglesias, Boston Globe

A “wholly unique” and “uncompromising” literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man, and the people who love him in every form he takes (Eric LaRocca, author of _Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes_).

Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago’s lung. Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale, she nurtures the lung until it gains sentience, growing into the carnivorous little Monstrilio she keeps hidden within the walls of her family’s decaying Mexico City estate.

Eventually, Monstrilio begins to resemble the Santiago he once was, but his innate impulses—though curbed by his biological and chosen family’s communal care—threaten to destroy this fragile second chance at life.

A thought-provoking meditation on grief, acceptance, and the monstrous sides of love and loyalty, Gerardo Sámano Córdova blends bold imagination and evocative prose with deep emotional rigor. Told in four acts that span the globe from Brooklyn to Berlin, _Monstrilio_ offers, with uncanny clarity, a cathartic and precise portrait of being human.

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speculative books that explore grief, loss, and mourning!

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\- Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
\- The Grief Shop: and other stories from a broken world by Alex DiFrancesco
\- On the Wings of la Noche by Vanessa L. Torres

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📚 books mentioned:
\- Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
\- Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
\- House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

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\- Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
\- The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
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\- Model Home by Rivers Solomon
\- Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
\- The Unfinished by Cheryl Isaacs
\- The Coven Tendency by Zoe Hana Mikuta
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\- The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
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\- Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
\- How Long ‘til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin

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\- Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
\- I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones
\- Open Throat by Henry Hoke
\- Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
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- Hurricane Season: one of kind, relentless, harrowing.\\
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- A Little Life: some call it trauma porn, some call it the book of our generation.\\
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- Indelicacy: I loved this tiny novel. Labor, class, women.\\
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- Open Throat: we need to be reading more about gay mountain lions.\\
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- Severance: our great apocalypse novel.\\
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- Motherhood: Heti went inside of my brain to write this.\\
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- Tonight I’m Someone Else: this book reminds me of a heatwave. Desire, youth!\\
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- The Year of Magical Thinking: loss and charting the unknown waters of grief.\\
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- A Minor Chorus: queer Indigenous survival.\\
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- Strangers to Ourselves: I really loved this deep dive into mental health.\\
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- Second Place: my favorite Cusk. Art, marriage, family.\\
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- Death by Landscape: an incredible essay collection about the age of extinction.\\
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- Paradise Rot: horror and wonder, hyper-sensual.\\
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- Dogs of Summer: 90’s queer girlhood expertly depicted.\\
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- The Book of Ayn: radical selfishness and ego-death in our modern age.\\
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- Y/N: the extremities of fan culture, a lucid fever dream.\\
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- Fake Accounts: a precise skewering of internet culture.\\
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- Something New Under the Sun: a darkly satirical take on our ecological reality.\\
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- Normal People: it was a cultural reset.\\
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- The Hard Crowd: Kushner is one of my favorite thinkers, I love this collection.\\
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- Hamnet: transportive, the only book that could get me to care about Shakespeare.\\
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- Revenge of the Scapegoat: familial trauma, chronic illness, academic labor.\\
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- The Goodby People: post-Manson, pre-Disney Los Angeles.\\
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- The Seas: a perfect, sparkling coming of age novel.\\
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**They Never Learn** \- The MC is taking out men at the college she works at for doing awful things and will never see justice. SHE'S the justice\\
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**The Echo Wife** \- Try not to read the book description for this one, going in not knowing a thing is the best way! (Obviously check TW if needed) \\
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**Dearest** \- Motherhood is hard but harder when your estranged mother comes to help, or is it? \\
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**The Devil and Mrs Davenport** \- Woman gets the flu, starts seeing visions about what happened to the missing women in her area. There is nothing like this book. \\
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**The Dark Becomes Her** \- I am the youngest of 3 sisters, I know my sisters would be Ruby Chen to help me from being possessed. This book is seriously underrated. If you like a possession story, this is one of the best ones out there. \\
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**My Heart Is a Chainsaw** \- Jade is a Cancer and no one will be able to convince me otherwise. This story is not only a horrifying slasher, it's also deeply emotional. I love Jade, she is one of the greatest MCs in horror.\\
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**Monstrilio** \- Mother cuts out a piece of her sons lung and nurtures it turning into a creature who she raises as her son. This one feels so obvious for me.\\
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