Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun

Synopsis

In a near-future Ecuador, best friends Noa and Nicole leave Guayaquil for the Solar Noise Festival, a week-long gathering at the foot of an active volcano where music, ritual, technology, and altered states merge into a feverish celebration. While Noa throws herself into the festival's intoxicating atmosphere to outrun the past, Nicole grows increasingly uneasy, sensing that beneath the festival's promises of liberation lies something far more dangerous. As hallucination, myth, and reality begin to blur, each must confront the violence, grief, and buried memories that have shaped her life.

Blending psychological horror, speculative fiction, and visionary prose, Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun is a hypnotic novel about girlhood, trauma, friendship, and the search for transformation. Fierce, unsettling, and wildly imaginative, Mónica Ojeda once again confirms herself as one of the most daring voices in contemporary Latin American literature.

About the Author

Mónica Ojeda is an Ecuadorian novelist, poet, and essayist whose work explores horror, violence, adolescence, mythology, and the body. A National Book Award finalist and one of the leading figures of a new generation of Latin American writers, she is the author of Jawbone and Nefando. Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun is translated from the Spanish by Sarah Booker.

Publisher
Coffee House Press

Publication Date
October 7, 2025

Format
Paperback

Pages
240

Subjects
Literary Fiction · Translated Fiction · Horror · Speculative Fiction · Ecuadorian Literature

ISBN
9781566897556