Cuerpo Down

The body of a mother waiting. The body of a daughter born with an extra chromosome. Between them, a new language emerges. 

With a lyrical, and deeply reflective voice, Monse Arosemena explores the boundaries between essay, memoir, and poetry. Down Body is the story of a diagnosis, but also the chronicle of a transformation: that of a woman who learns to face difference without fear, to name the unexpected with love, and to embrace fragility. 

Written from a place of both pain and clarity, this intimate yet unsparingly precise narrative moves through hospital corridors, the language of diagnosis, and the silences that accompany acceptance. Every scene becomes an act of resistance against the clinical jargon that seeks to define what can only truly be understood through tenderness. 

In the tradition of writers such as Annie Ernaux, Pearl S. Buck, and Gabriela Wiener, Arosemena transforms personal testimony into literature and motherhood into a profound revelation.