Literary Fiction
A grieving mother grows her dead son’s lung into a carnivorous creature in this visceral meditation on grief, identity, and monstrous love.
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A grieving mother grows her dead son’s lung into a carnivorous creature in this visceral meditation on grief, identity, and monstrous love.
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Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago’s lung. Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale, she nurtures the lung until it gains sentience, growing into the carnivorous little Monstrilio she keeps hidden within the walls of her family’s decaying Mexico City estate. Eventually, Monstrilio begins to resemble the Santiago he once was, but his innate impulses-though curbed by his biological and chosen family’s communal care...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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On-page queer sexual content with kink and consent themes
Violence & gore
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Extreme body horror, corpse mutilation, cannibalism, gore, murder
Profanity
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Occasional strong profanity throughout
Substance use
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Recurring alcohol and drug use depicted
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Central queer identity, kink, and consent themes; LGBTQ+ characters
Religious content
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No religious themes present
Magic & witchcraft
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Central magical realism: lung grown into sentient creature via folktale
Occult / demonology
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No real-world occult content depicted
Political content
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Light social themes of identity, acceptance, and family
Self-harm / suicide
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Suicidal thoughts depicted
Abuse & suffering
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Animal death, murder, cannibalism; graphic handling of child’s corpse
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