Luto sem Bússola by Carme López Mercader (Translation: Miguel Serras Pereira ) is the book chosen for the 13th edition of the Reading Club.

The dynamics of participation in the Club are as follows:

Registration is compulsory for each edition;
We recommend reading the book assigned to each edition, but it is not compulsory;
The meetings will last 1.5 hours, depending on the book.
First comes death. Then comes mourning. Endless desolation.
A time accompanied by pain, perplexity and absolute sadness, bewilderment, disbelief, advice and opinions. Nothing prepares us for loss, least of all when it's devastating, no matter how much reason tells us it's a possibility. The reality is that when it comes, we don't know how to face it.

Terra incognita, that's what ancient maps used to call the unknown territories which, because they were unknown, cartographers filled with imaginary beings. There are dragons out there, they warned. In other words, monsters.

In the terra incognita of mourning we will also encounter them. Sometimes they come from ourselves and sometimes from strange and unexpected places. But we'll have to face them all, alone, without a map and, contrary to what Javier, my husband, used to say guided his writing, also without a compass.