THE MONGOOSE

Things are not going well for Julia. She's off work, her brother Joël moved in after losing his job, her mother won't leave her alone... and, above all, a mongoose is wreaking havoc in her vegetable garden.

In a refined, pared-down style, Portuguese author Joana Mosi offers with The Mongoose a particularly insightful story about family, grief, and depression, as well as the defense mechanisms we use to try and escape it all.