How does recent literature intervene in our configuration of reality? How can it destabilize the most naturalized prejudices and beliefs in our understanding of what surrounds us? Sara Mesa's narrative plays with these tensions to approach gradually, respectfully and silently the vicissitudes of characters and situations that she inspects to the point of discovering their intimacies, contradictions and most recondite ambiguities. Mesa's writing that is at once subtle and ruthless sows doubts, dismantles prejudices and questions responsibilities in an exercise that questions at the same time the limits of social norms, interpersonal relationships and communication, problems that have also been central to realist narrative since its origins. In this volume, we propose to explore the paths taken by the author's narrative in relation to the concerns, debates and discussions of our time: the limits of social and patriarchal power, the different ways of reacting to conflictive situations, dysfunctional communication, precariousness or resistance to social normativity, among others. We offer, therefore, a mosaic of interpretations, analyses and readings that complement each other, from different methodologies, with the intention of opening new paths in the study of Sara Mesa's narrative.Sara Mesa, born in 1976 and based in Seville, is the author of an important and varied work: an essay, poetry collections, collections of short stories and a dozen novels, including Cicatriz (Anagrama 2015), which won the Ojo Crítico award, a novel with which she rose to fame and which earned her success among the public and critics.