Lupita liked to iron

Lupita liked to iron is a novel by the author of the international bestseller Like Water for Chocolate .

Lupita is a police officer with alcoholism problems and a history of violence, and survives day after day in an environment where appearances, money and power reign - a society marked, for centuries, by injustice, helplessness and impotence, from which there seems to be no way out.

Everything changes when, in the wrong place at the wrong time, she finds herself implicated in the murder of a politician. She is the only witness, but she is unable to recall the details; she feels paralyzed by fear, shaken by the death of the man who, for her, offered a new possibility in a corrupt world. And soon, Lupita realizes that her own life is at risk and that, to save herself, she must unravel the mysterious crime, which involves shady political interests, corruption networks, and drug trafficking.

With an original dose of dark humor and profound spiritual insight, Laura Esquivel tells the story of an exceptional woman, a character who defies the classic notion of a heroine. In this novel, she reveals a fascinating moral parable of a world in crisis that has lost its way, in which we are all a little bit like Lupita, searching for something to help us overcome the lack of love.

“A sharp moral parable for these times of permanent crisis and widespread corruption.” - La Jornada

“A work born of injustices, which Laura Esquivel calls 'the wrinkles of the world'.” - El País