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.”
“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.”
BY GRETA GARCÍA:
Muere, papá
ILLUSTRATED, 2026
Solo quería bailar
FICTION, 2023