Rooted - Leopoldo Goût

nAuthor of Piñata, Leopoldo Goût's latest horror novel Rooted is a a blood reckoning (Marlon James) where one woman's return to Mexico City digs away the layers of her forgotten past and the Aztec gods she awakened. n nThere's nothing wrong with Aurora. n nA successful art lawyer, she has returned to Mexico to celebrate a recent campaign for the repatriation of stolen artifacts--in particular a mysterious statue of an Aztec god, The Flayed One.

n nBut Mexico City isn't as she remembered. Nothing is. Elements of her past hint at darkness and power, and reality begins to crack and warp the streets.

n nThere's nothing wrong with Aurora. n nAs Aurora's sanity unravels, she must pry apart her family's secrets and accept the simplest of truths: The Flayed One cannot stay buried. n nIt wields all the destructive fury of a flayed god determined to avenge centuries' worth of colonial devastation and greed..-Cynthia Gómez, Ignyte-nominated author of Muñeca n nOther Books by Leopoldo Goût nPiñatan