The Boy Who Lost His Heart

Trajín

Beto is a boy who lives among uncomfortable silences, broken adults, and secrets that no one wants to see. In his home, the boundaries between tenderness and danger blur: his mother cries naked in the darkness, his father is absent even when he is there, his cousins play at cruelty, and a strange gardener talks to the plants while opening doors that should never have been opened.

Amid games, lies, ghosts, and real monsters, Beto tries to make sense of a world that is far too big for him.

The Boy Who Lost His Heart is a fierce and luminous novel about childhood in a Mexico that chooses to look the other way. We follow Beto from childhood into early adulthood as he grows and copes as best he can with things he does not yet know or understand, accumulating wounds, refuges, and strategies for survival. A journey in which the everyday becomes sinister, adults fail again and again, and a boy ultimately faces the most difficult question of all: what kind of adult does he want to become.