Dolores Reyes

Electrifying 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, Earth-eater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth-a compulsion that gives...

A woman from an slum in contemporary Argentina teams up with a withdrawn police officer when she develops a compulsive urge to eat dirt that triggers visions of murdered and missing people, including her own mother.