Elena knows

Author's name: Claudia Pinheiro

Elena knows her daughter couldn't have committed suicide by hanging herself at the tower. After her body is found, Elena, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, strives to uncover the truth and prove that her daughter couldn't have walked out into the rain and killed herself. She defies everyone: her illness, the police, and the neighborhood she lives in, to uncover the truth. Elena knows her daughter well, "or so Elena thinks, because she is her mother, or was her mother. Elena believes that motherhood comes with certain things: a mother knows her child, a mother knows him, a mother loves him. That's what they say, that's what it is. She loved her daughter and still loves her even though she never told her so, even though they fought and drifted apart, even though their words together were like the lash of a whip, even if she never hugged or kissed her daughter, she felt a mother's love." And so, she must complete her journey despite the difficulty of her illness, defying old age, disability, and everything, even what Elena doesn't know and denies. In this novel, Claudia Piñeiro goes beyond the usual elements of crime fiction to raise urgent moral questions, challenging hypocrisy and many of the prevailing beliefs in her society to its core in order to persevere and be willing to change.