LA CABEZA DE MI PADRE

La cabeza de mi padre is a transparent book, in which readers will accompany the journey to find this man with a mysterious destiny and, perhaps, we will catch glimpses of our own searches. A story written from the heart, from where only the road to the origin can be travelled. Confronted with loss, the author seeks to reconstruct the symbol of her missing father as a way of completing herself. From this premise she tells the story of her life: The main character grows up among eight siblings, a working mother and misery, and reflects with eyes wide open not only on her biography, but also on the history of a classist, racist and deeply divided country where women have the most to lose, especially fatherless women. Like a road trip, at the age of forty, she sets out on her quest with three of her siblings and her mother. As she narrates her decision to go and meet him and the journey that takes her from Mexico City to Michoacán, she intersperses passages from her life. Alma Delia Murillo is a Mexican writer, author of the bestselling novel La cabeza de mi padre (Alfaguara, 2022). She is also a regular collaborator in national newspapers such as Reforma, or magazines as The Washington Post or Milenio, among others. She is also a scriptwriter, who has participated as a creator and scriptwriter in several several audioseries for Amazon Audible and Amazon Music: 10 Mujeres (Wondery and Dudas Media) starring actresses such as Angélica Aragón, Yalitza Aparicio, Bárbara Mori and Mabel Cadena, Conversaciones prohibidas del confinamiento, starring Maya Zapata, El amor es un bono navideño, Ciudad de abajo (starring Alfonso Herrera), and Diario la libro. She debuted with the short stories Damas de Caza (Plaza y Valdés, 2011) and Cuentos de maldad (y uno que otro maldito) (Alfaguara, 2020), and then kept on writing the novels El niño que fuimos (Alfaguara, 2018) and Las noches habitadas (DeBolsillo, 2021).