What if your perfect family was an illusion created to keep you prisoner?
Psyche Descartes turns thirteen without ever having seen the light of day. She lives in a windowless house, surrounded by parents, uncles, and aunts who seem eternally young, beautiful, and kind. Her only escape is a diary she writes in secret... until one day, a forbidden kiss and a mask with the word "OK" engraved on the forehead begin to reveal the truth: nothing in her life is real.
Descartes' Daughter and 16 Other Strange Cases is a collection of interconnected stories that blend science fiction, philosophical horror, and a strange tenderness. Through the eyes of a girl raised by immortal scientists and machines with souls, Alex Firefly constructs a universe where love, identity, and memory blur the boundaries of humanity itself.
A disturbing, poetic, and deeply original work, ideal for readers of Black Mirror, Mary Shelley, or Cortázar.