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It is June, and Shit is sad. She knows she will not get to leave her neighbourhood that summer, and the beach is far, far away, and that clouds, like the bottom of a donkey's belly, will hover all summer over her town, high among the volcanoes of northern Tenerife. But Shit—our nine-year-old narrator—has a best friend, Isora.  Shit likes everything about Isora. The colour of her arms and her hair and her eyes. Her handwriting and the way she wrote the letter g with a huge tail. The way she called her shit because poop was a beautiful thing.

"Reconozco que al principio, cuando "Panza de burro" solo había crecido unos capitulitos, pensé que sería una novela sencilla y hermosa que abriría un hachazo en esa tela de invernadero que parecía ocultar un imaginario y un mundo que debían ser mostrados. Más adelante, la grandeza del libro, la inteligencia y el salvajismo de Andrea, su pulso poético y su falta total de miedo hicieron trizas la rafia, y quedó a la vista una plantación intrincada, dolorosa, inmensa, nada sencilla.