Cosmica by Gabriela Román Fuentes Translated by Georgina Escobar

It’s the first day of the final year of secondary school.
Meisa lost her spots over the summer. Barrientos is late.
And Juan still knows all the answers. Three teenagers
feel the first blows of love, cruelty and kindness as
they float somewhere between the classroom and
the cosmos. Cosmica takes an honest and poignant
snapshot of life through an adolescent lens. Meisa and
Juan’s new-found romance is changing their sense of
themselves, the world and the universe. But no matter
how much they stare at the skies, pressures from their
classmates, teachers and social media notifications
bring them down to earth. When intimate photos
are posted around the school, their world will take
another painful spin.