Illustrations for a book cover and interior pages for Elefanta Editorial ( Mexico City ) 2026

This book is unique: its seemingly candid writing moves with childlike naivety, but only to slowly lead us into a raw world where innocence can be monstrous, or monstrosity innocent. Verena Cavalcante inhabits this back-and-forth, venturing into dark places and intertwining the human condition with entomological behavior—not only to suggest that insects—those organized creatures that are always closer than we think—can be ruthless, and that humans are not far behind, but also to make us feel that the book itself is like holding a scorpion in our hands.