Quién cuidará de ti

Two women, separated in their youth by the death of Paulo, the son of one of them, reunite thirty years later to live together for three months in a hospital room. The narrator, driven there by the guilt that death provoked, tries to care for her old friend and thus repay her terrible debt. In this process, she confronts the contradiction of her feelings, the difficulty of being a caregiver, and the persistence of memory. Faced with loneliness, the passage of time, illness, and death, she resorts to the determination to remain in life and beauty through friendship, motherhood, literature, and the acceptance of her own vulnerability. With a restrained yet profound voice, this novel transcends the individual to explore the chiaroscuro of a reality that involves us all: the world of caregiving, the decisions about our own existence, and the weight of that responsibility. And, without losing sight of this reality, it compels us to discover the redemptive tenacity of affection.