Empty HousesEmpty Houses takes place in the aftermath of a shocking incident: a child has disappeared from the park where he was playing. In the days that follow, his mother is distraught. She is tormented by his absence but also by her own ambivalence: did she even want him in the first place? In a working class neighbourhood on the other side of Mexico City, another woman protects her stolen child. As the novel switches between the voices of these two women,