Dugongo

How much can we transform ourselves without losing the coordinates of our return? Lula, a Mexican migrant in Barcelona, ​​embarks on a journey through Southeast Asia in an attempt to recover the lost memories of home, body, and love, while grappling with depression, the tensions of grief, and family bureaucracies. Traversing dazzling landscapes on the other side of the world, and navigating between the tourist experience and the traveler's journey, the protagonist confronts the inevitable circularity of the path to discover that we are all carriers of our own origins. Like the herbivorous mammal —part monster, part mermaid— that gives the novel its title, Oseguera blends, disrupts, and hybridizes poetry, travelogue, and essay-fiction to dismantle our shared obsessions and traumas, as well as the geopolitical hierarchies and colonial relationships we carry like heavy baggage of wounds and privileges. A stripped-down and lucid exploration of what throbs, hurts, and persists, here and on the other side of the world.