Venezuela, 1921. Diana, the fourteen-year-old daughter of an elitist family from Caracas, discovers she has inherited the hematophagy disorder from her father, a moneylender and landowner, occupations he pursues thanks to his connection to the…

Contemporary Venezuelan literature is largely the literature of migrant writers. For decades—and for various reasons—Venezuelan writers have sought to settle in various parts of the world, with the United States, Spain, and other Latin American…