Trabécula

At 1 Avenida del Armiño—the sole remnant of an ambitious residential project built in the 1950s—residents live alongside a long history of deaths, apparitions, and inexplicable events. Each inhabitant is trapped in their own form of confinement: an obsession with youth, the burden of family ties, the quest for perfect love, a fear of loneliness, or a need for self-importance. That is, until a presence arrives at the building and begins knocking on their doors, one by one. *Trabécula* is a novel about failure and the fictions we construct to shield ourselves from what we fear. With echoes of Shirley Jackson, Mariana Enríquez, and Roald Dahl—and a generous dose of cinematic references and pulp aesthetics—Ana Pizarro blends horror and comedy to ask what we truly call home, and to what extent fear can serve as a life jacket.