When Lucila Grossman wrote Terminal Maps (Lava Editorial), she never imagined that she would end up being a writer. Argentina is a firm believer in images and that they "want to tell us something", which is why she simply tried to capture on paper what she was seeing, which was nothing more than the future of the generation of she.
"We millennials are fantastic and we have the ability to destroy or conquer the planet if we please, but we are too lazy to do any of these things," the writer admits to La Vanguardia.
The story, "psychedelic and captivating", as she herself defines it, has as its protagonist a young woman with a chaotic life who considers herself the Virgin Mary of the 21st century after having become pregnant and given birth in less than 24 hours after a night of alcohol and drugs.
As expected, your son is not an ordinary child. A transparent monster is born from his womb with which he communicates, in telepathic and polyphonic conversations, through an app downloaded to his mobile. "Her motherhood was never easy and for her even less, so she tries to cope with it as best she can," the author advances.
In his story, Grossman flirts with science fiction but, he insists, “I don't like to label my work in any way or give it any genre. I don't want to frustrate the reader. It's got some crazy, sci-fi points to it, yes, but I'm using it in reality to get to something deeper and to tell a realistic story."
Her way of narrating, so characteristic and applauded by a large part of the readers, is the result, she assures, “of being a daughter of her time and of new technologies, since these have influenced my generation when it comes to expressing ourselves. I write frantically and talk about more than one topic at a time, but I don't think this is my own thing. It is only necessary to look at the children of today, who live everything even faster. Their mental organization works in an accelerated way and they do not know how to sit still. Technology becomes part of everyone's everyday experience, whether we like it or not."
