By Camila Valenzuela León

• Editorial Planeta, 2015
• Young Adult
• 354 pages
• Medalla Colibrí runner-up, 2016

This YA novel from acclaimed Chilean author Camila Valenzuela delves into the repercussions of the Pinochet dictatorship from the perspective of those who were children at the time. Fifteen-year-old Elena is the youngest of three children in an upper class Chilean family. While Elena spends new year 1999 with her parents in their holiday home in Viña del Mar, her brother, Juancri, is working in New York, and her sister, Isabel, is mysteriously absent. With her siblings far away, Elena feels out of place among her wealthy, fashionable cousins, and befriends Violeta, a tarot reader she meets by the beach. Elena’s mother disapproves of her daughter’s new ‘unsuitable’ friend, but is powerless to stop the friendship from forming. Before long, Violeta has opened Elena’s eyes to the darker side of Chilean high society, and Elena begins to question the world she has grown up in.