Muere, papá
Greta García
ILLUSTRATED | 2026 | 120 pages
In a book illustrated by her own father, author, theater director, and circus performer Greta García attempts to unravel her complicated relationship to him and to her own identity
My father draws. I write. He hasn’t left the house in years and prefers being horizontal. I suddenly think that we could create a book together. I decide to call it Muere, papá, as if it was a game. I fantasize about his death. If I write about his fears, I might exorcize them, I tell myself. And so my father will emerge from the memory foam with a straight spine and new abs, with a Zen attitude and light emanating from his pores like some saintly figure. But the days pass and I begin to doubt. What if I’ve invoked the opposite? What if, by dwelling on it so much, I’ve killed him? It would be morbid and repugnant. Family pornography. Some people don’t know where my personhood ends and the character begins. The problem is, I don’t know either.
Greta García, author of the novel Solo quería bailar, is back—biting and acerbic as ever—with a book illustrated by artist José Toro, her father, that delves into the darkness of family.
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“Greta García is back and more herself than ever, more multidimensional, complex, playful, acerbic, ironic, and deep. She invites us to play with preconceived ideas of power hierarchies with language that is so her own that it traps us with its honesty.”
“Father-daughter trauma has never been more fun.”
“A unique father. A daughter who writes without filters. A book that blends humour, existential traumas, filial love and inside jokes. Experimental autofiction with a voice of its own that is shameless, extravagant, and tender all at once, accompanied by the author’s father’s own illustrations. A domestic whirlwind transformed into ART.”
“This is what happens when a father draws and a daughter writes with a sense of humour blacker than my heart. A book you can’t put down.”
“With this new book, García delves into family ties with a sharp, uncomfortable and deeply lucid gaze, in which humour acts as a tool of resistance against the intimate and the painful. The author proposes a journey that oscillates between irony and rawness, questioning the boundaries between the personal and the narrative. ”
“Greta García returns to bookshops with a book illustrated by her father, the artist José Toro, in which she delves into the dark side of family life. Written with irony and spiraling thought, “Muere, papá” (Die, Dad) turns the coexistence between a daughter and her housebound father into an emotional battlefield full of black humour, tenderness and lucidity.”
BY GRETA GARCÍA:
Muere, papá
ILLUSTRATED, 2026
Solo quería bailar
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