Eartheater

NAMED A FALL 2020 MUST-READ AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF FALL 2020 BY TIME, VULTURE, THE BOSTON GLOBE, COSMOPOLITAN, WIRED, TOR AND MOREElectrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young woman whose compulsion to eat earth gives her visions of murdered and missing people--an imaginative synthesis of mystery and magical realism that explores the dark tragedies of ordinary lives.Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Eartheater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth--a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. Disturbed by what she witnesses, the woman keeps her visions to herself. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother's death.

But when Eartheater begins an unlikely relationship