Paulina Almada awakes amnesiac beside a wailing teenage girl in a car wreck. From that moment, she recounts her descent into an existential crisis and realises that this near-death experience may also be her redemption. The bitter cynicism and stark lucidity that veils her fear of abandonment had made her so cruel that she risks losing her boyfriend, Felipe, and her only friend, Maite.

After Felipe breaks up with her, Paulina and Maite set out on a road trip. “The fake Thelma and Louise, manless runaways without style or courage,” she reflects sullenly. Intentional and accidental misadventures ensue, including crashing a quinceañera, which threatens to irrevocably alter her experience of the everyday. When we finally witness the collision, it’s clear that all bonds, and life itself, are meaningful because they are temporary.

"A story about a break-up andan existential crisis: Is it possible to save oneself from oneself? . ..  Dancing Queen portrays instability, what is fleeting andungraspable, as a treasure that may make life worth living.” —Juan Pablo Villalobos, author of I’ll Sell You a Dog.

“A prose that seems to have arrivedfrom outer space. Her voice defies all domestication and sings like a singularmasterpiece.” —Leila Guerriero, author of Bonsái.

“Whois—what is—Camila Fabbri? A mind-blowing, mind-blown next-door Emily Brontë? Asecret language spoken and written to be learned by reading her and shivering?David Lynch’s best friend? An alien entity taking Polaroids of what was alwaysthere but invisible to us until Fabbri arrived? Who knows? But I’m sure of onething: It’s been a long time since I met someone or something like this, andit’s going to be a long time before I meet something or someone like Fabbriagain. I can’t get over it. I don’t want to get over it. Now you try; I dareyou.” —Rodrigo Fresán, author of Melvill.

“Every single paragraph of Dancing Queen is an event. Camila Fabbri's gaze is always unexpected, and reading her prose is a true delight.” —Jazmina Barrera, author of The Queen of Swords.

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