La amenaza extraterrestre by Salvador Freixedo

La amenaza extraterrestre by Salvador Freixedo

It's 1973. Bice Rappa's mother is dead, her older brother has disappeared, and her controlling father barely lets her leave their house in Queens. As he reads books on horticulture and dissects the bodies of birds, she dreams of going to school-that is, until she finds out that the man who is raising her has made her poisonous.

For Bice, escaping home means befriending an orphaned daredevil, charming the donor coordinator at a Manhattan fertility clinic, and becoming the single mother of a baby named Mari. For her brother, it means living in a windowless room in an artist commune where he struggles with obsessive fears of climate crisis and death. Against the apocalyptic backdrop of Y2K, their father will want nothing more than to track down-and abduct-his only grandchild. When the Rappas' paths cross again, will Bice and her daughter be able to protect each other?

A contemporary gothic retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Rappaccini's Daughter, The Poison Girl follows three generations of girls and women through New York City as they navigate experiences of diaspora and neurodivergence, patriarchal architectures, and environmental violence.

Salvador Freixedo El autor first became interested in the ovnis phenomenon in the 1960s, and has since investigated its inexhaustible case history from Canada to Argentina. The many books he has written on the subject, such as La Granja Humana and Defendámonos de los Dioses, are fruits of his travels and investigations, and they show how he has been gradually deepening his understanding of these mysterious visitors. Despite the fact that it appears to have little in common with the majority of the others, the theme of this book is the culmination of all of its findings. Being a member of the Jesuit order for thirty years has prepared him particularly well to address the topic of religion and the occult phenomenon. A topic that may strike some as anti-ufological nonsense and others as religious fanaticism, but which is backed up by a slew of facts. Scientists and intellectuals will continue to be quite solemn, contemplating their own ombligo while ignoring the most momentous event in human history.