We can all be each other's demon. We can all be that other's human sacrifice. María Fernanda Ampuero, one of the essential voices of current Latin American literature, masterfully pushes us into a humid, rotten and hostile universe where violence marks the narrative of our lives. In that world stands a many-headed beast that terrorizes and bites the weak, the marginalized, the sacrificial for the sake of silence, inequality, hatred, abuse, death.