In The Garden That Takes Me Over, bodies open up like territories where memory, illness, guilt, and desire germinate. Each story in this selection is a wound born of pain, a mirror where flesh decomposes only to bloom again. In this unsettling garden, the characters encounter earth, water, or animals, reminding us that humanity also belongs to the wild. With an immersive and stark prose, María Elena González Ortega writes about the vulnerability of bodies and their tireless dialogue with death. In its pages, horror merges with tenderness, the grotesque with the sacred, and transformation is revealed as the purest form of resistance. The Garden That Takes Me Over is a book that invites us to confront what we fear: the rotting body, the fragmented voice, the life that insists on sprouting, even among the ruins.
