Un matrimonio

*Un matrimonio* (A Marriage) tells the story of a divorce. Drawing from a personal experience marked by bewilderment and pain, Marta Jiménez Serrano examines the void that emerges—a void like a broken bone, a collection of splinters struggling to find some semblance of order. Written in raw, living blood—yet also with the promise of new life—this book gazes into the chaos, observing what dies and what is born, what remains unspoken and what is finally given a name. The author uncovers silences inherited from grandmothers and mothers, tucked away in the back rooms of their lives—silences held within structures that endure only because they are, in fact, dead. Yet, she also discovers the beginning that lies within every ending: the light that filters through a crack, a new way of perceiving beauty and existing in the world. *Un matrimonio* speaks to all those who have ever doubted themselves, feeling an ache in their chests while clearing the dinner table. Within its pages, one finds a wedding dress, many friends, and many tears. There is a notary, a house, and the ghost of a husband. There are also poems—a parenthesis in the heart of the narrative, reaching places that prose alone cannot touch.