Book to be discussed: “Monstrilio” by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

"A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man, and the people who love him in every form he takes.

Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago’s lung. Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale, she nurtures the lung until it gains sentience, growing into the carnivorous little Monstrilio she keeps hidden within the walls of her family’s decaying Mexico City estate.