Lo mejor de Susanita

“Children! That’s all I ask of life,” Susanita announces, her hair perfectly styled and a doll in her arms. The little girl who dreams of marriage, lots of children, and a comfortable life, while dispensing gossip, prejudice, and melodrama with utter nonchalance, is the protagonist of this book, which brings together her most memorable cartoons. Her drawing-room ambition, her fierce selfishness, her oversimplifications, her conventionalism, her amorous and gossipy nature, and her endless prejudices clash with Mafalda’s lucidity, turning every scene into conflict and laughter. With sharp, unflinching humor, Quino paints a portrait as maternal as it is haughty and envious, a satirical mirror of a type of woman who makes us laugh and, incidentally, look at ourselves askance.