RAÍZ QUE NO DESAPARECE

Alma Delia Murillo narrates the collective tragedy of our disappeared and she does so with indignation and pain, but also with love, lucidity, and a vital humor that urges us to keep reading.

When Marcos was a boy he wrote letters to his mom before he left for school. Now he turns up in her dreams, because he wants to tell her where they took him. when he was disappeared. Ada is in a race against time because she fears she will die before finding him, but one thing she is sure of: she has to look for him under a tree.

The palm tree at the heart of Mexico City was cut down and in its place an ahuehuete tree was planted. Now it has died for strange reasons. And a writer wants to write about it, she wants to expose the truth. That's how she ends up crossing paths with Ada and other mothers who are searchingmothers who are also having dreams about their disappeared children's whereabouts. And although the DA wants to bury the cases about the dreams, these coordinates pinpoint where the disappeared ended up, with inexplicable precision. The trees see everything. Witnesses of the death that has accumulated in their roots as clandestine graves, and has manifested on their trunks and leaves, they will become the translators of the search, the interlocutors between memory, absence and hope. What if the silenced could speak through the trees?

Alma Delia Murillo (Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, 1979) is a Mexican writer, author of the bestselling novel La cabeza de mi padre (Alfaguara, 2022) and Raíz que no desaparece (Alfaguara, 2025). She is also a regular collaborator in national newspapers such as Reforma, or magazines as The Washington Post or Milenio, among others.

Murillo 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).