Steinbeck, Michelle - Favorita

Part hallucinatory road trip, part feminist revenge fantasy: a wild, furious and mischievous novel from an incendiary new European talent. Brash and obnoxious, Fila’s mother Magdalena caused chaos every time she appeared in her daughter’s life. But Fila hasn’t seen her in years, not since she disgraced their family by advertising her brothel in the newspaper. Until one day Fila picks up her grandmother’s mortadella-coloured telephone to a voice telling her that her mother is dead. And no matter what anyone says, the voice continues, she was murdered. Fila collects her mother’s ashes and sets out, urn in tow, to retrace the whirlwind life of the woman last known as Favorita.