Leche de silencio

Why don't I speak my mother's language? With this question, posed from a memory rooted in silence, Socorro Venegas constructs a revolution imbued with the dignity of a life lived on the margins, the revaluation of Indigenous languages, the collective dialogue of grief, childhood as a tragic territory, and the mystery of motherhood. In these hybrid pages that oscillate between poetic memory, unstable essay, imagined autobiography, and non-fiction novel, the author appropriates a river of voices, testimonies forged in blood and fire, a pain that is a language not always articulated to be heard. Her pages elevate an intimate epic, an indelible beauty, a social and political meditation, a resistance of our ancestors from more than five hundred years ago. The women in this book love and resist, they make mistakes, and in their silences, they carry secrets they are not proud of: they are alive. Their words are an embrace.