Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas

A journey around my toilet. 

“Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas’ writing is a toilet where sorrows, desires and broken dreams whirl in a psychedelic spiral when you flush the toilet. There they go, down the drain, on their way to the sea, where we readers wait, swimming, amazed by the beauty of the waste. What an experience.” –Sabina Urraca

Like art in its purest form, Pure Flash is a book that avoids any conventional order. Its pages contain variations, reflections and brief fictions that allow us to peek into the sacrosanct intimacy of life within the four walls of a toilet.

This ordinary and at the same time so strangely marginal space is the refuge where people weep over broken love affairs and irretrievable losses, the territory of purifying habits, of sex alone or in fleeting company, the backdrop for seductive selfies rehearsed at the onset of the night and crowned with vomiting at the end of it. Or it can be a death trap, as Marat and Agamemnon well found out.

Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas’s lively prose gives a worthy account of the countless experiences lived out in toilets – hygienic, erotic, political and criminal, with just the right measure of irony, seriousness and melodrama.

“The bathrooms in this book have the faucets running, and the floor is flooded with heat, pain, horror, flesh.”—Sabina Urraca

“The writer stands out for her ability to tackle complex themes with a unique perspective, demonstrating a profound understanding of social and gender dynamics.” —Vogue

“The writing of Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas is distinguished by her ability to capture human complexity and social tension.”—Infobae 

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