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PublishedScribe Publications, July 2025 |
ISBN9781761381164 |
FormatSoftcover, 240 pages |
Dimensions0.1cm × 0.1cm × 0.1cm |
A haunting exploration of female friendship, desire, and memory set against the sultry backdrop of Florida's swamplands.
It's been years since Ingrid has heard from her childhood best friend, Mayra, a fearless rebel who fled their hometown of Miami for college in the Northeast. But when Mayra calls out of the blue to invite Ingrid to a weekend at a house in the Everglades, Ingrid impulsively accepts.
From the moment Ingrid sets out for the house, danger looms- the directions to the house are difficult, she's out of reach of cell service, and the wet maw of the swamp threatens to swallow her up as she drives deeper into the Everglades. But once she arrives, the two women settle into the familiar intimacy of each other's company - their reunion only spoiled by the reemergence of past disagreements, and the unexpected presence of Mayra's new boyfriend, Benji.
The trio spend their hours hiking around the property, eating lavish meals, and exploring the labyrinthine house, which has belonged to Benji's family for generations. In the house and its grounds, time itself seems to stretch and expand, and Ingrid begins to lose a sense of the outside world, and herself. When Ingrid finds an aged journal that holds a clue to understanding the house, she must fight to hold onto herself while uncovering the journal's secrets, or risk being subsumed by the house forever.
'Nicky Gonzalez channels Shirley Jackson (something I do not say lightly) in this disquieting, mesmerising 21st century southern gothic. In Mayra, the hazy borders of friendship and identity are blurred, made uncanny and dangerous, and I was hooked from paragraph one.'
-Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie and A Head Full of Ghosts
'I ate this greedily; I swallowed it whole. Beguiling and moody and strange, Mayra shimmers with supernatural eeriness and the mercuriality of memory ... Gonzalez unspools all the disorienting, lonely-making work of getting unstuck and finding home and bliss - then, she terrifies you, has you turning pages while you're reaching for your keys, checking the locks, wishing you could text Ingrid and urge her to get a grip. This is a mesmerising, hallucinatory adrenaline rush of a novel, and Gonzalez is the future of horror writing.'
-Claire Luchette, author of Agatha of Little Neon
'The story that unfolds between Mayra and Ingrid lovingly embodies the vibrant beauty of Hialeah and the Florida Everglades ... Mayra is a haunting testament to the literal terror of being consumed by the very thing you're trying to escape.'
-Jennine Capo Crucet, author of Say Hello to My Little Friend
