En el verano de 1998, siete estudiantes universitarios deciden emprender un viaje de graduados desde la costa atlántica de Florida hasta la costa californiana del Pacífico en una motor home. En su recorrido por la interestatal 10 comenzarán a revelarse las verdaderas personalidades de cada uno. En Nueva Orleans, después de una noche de excesos, despiertan en una habitación de motel para descubrir que uno de sus integrantes había sido asesinado. Temiendo que cualquiera de ellos pudo ser el asesino, continúan viaje con el cuerpo del compañero como si fuese un viajero más. Una serie de decisiones apresuradas los llevará por el infierno de la frontera y el desierto, de la culpa y el silencio hasta encontrar una solución inesperada. Tequila es más que una aventura de camino; es la exploración del despojo de las máscaras que todos llevamos dentro como individuos civilizados y la invención de otros sustitutos como formas egoístas de sobrevivencia. “In this novel, the exaltation of youth is turned into a tragedy, and haunts a woman for many years. Majfud’s classic prose takes us on a journey through images and passions that succeed in tying together the Latin American spirit with the hidden dangers on the southern border of the United States. It’s most definitely a moving novel that will leave you hypnotized.” Carlos Salomón, Professor of Borderlands Studies at California State University. “A narrator determined to confront a violent past entraps us in her memories. Once more, Jorge Majfud shares his keen perspective on a society sickened by the excesses of modernity. Brigitte Natanson , Professor of Latin American Literature at Université d’Orléans, France. “Tequila is an arresting novel where adventure, delight and life on the road are united with the ethical sense and psychological exploration which characterize the works of Jorge Majfud. This time, the Uruguayan writer goes well beyond the borders he had already crossed in his previous novels to bring us a linear story that nonetheless features several interrelated narratives. What Tequila gets most right is its narration, which becomes obsessive, with subtlety and precision employed in the construction of each character and the plot itself. In short, a Majfudian novel... Leonor Taiano, the University of Notre Dame du Lac. “Majfud makes the reader uncomfortable with his nonconformist prose and a thoroughly unconventional dissection of the North American reality. While the excellent novel Crisis (2012) features largely unknown experiences of Latin American immigrants in the United States, in Tequila, news of a murder in Los Angeles triggers the memory of a solemn oath and a tragedy that returns from the past to haunt the narrator, who describes in detail a long-hidden secret that explains the final outcome.” Jorge Catala-Carrasco , Professor of Hispanic Studies at Newcastle University, England.