La història dels vertebrats

"On December 20, 2015, I became a mother and went crazy. [...] That same day, Spain voted in the first elections in which a new party participated [...], and the hope of change hovered over the day. At nightfall, when I counted contractions in the dilation room, the country counted seats. And both accounts came together in a new life for me, because one of those seats was going to be mine. The same day my children were born, I became a congressional deputy." What should have been the happiest day in the life of the narrator of this novel becomes the beginning of a crazy story. Her anxiety seizes her and the weight of the world falls on her shoulders for her doubly: she must care for her newborn twins and give a voice to those who have trusted her. This story delves into a personal wound to connect with universal struggles, and is a journey through art, literature, mythology, and the history of medicine. Masterfully, Mar García Puig turns her personal experience into a story that tells us about all the women who have ever felt that sanity was leaving them and all the men who have silenced them, protected by centuries of science, myths and politics.