"Agueda is a 35-year-old woman who has just her mother and is trying to resolve the wounds of the past with a hunger for the present. This sharp, contradictory and fiery woman finds herself confronting the strangeness of being alive while maintaining her curiosity in the face of the unknowable future." "After a phase as a rock singer embroiled in a tempestuous love affair, she devotes herself to researching the story of an enigmatic and extravagant eighteenth-century adventurer. Her investigation leads her inexorably into profound reflections on her childhood, her parents' relationship and her own emotional landscape."--Back cover.