Rooted by Leopoldo Goût (Hardcover) (PREORDER)

Fiction - Horror - Psychological - Occult and Supernatural - Hispanic and Latino

RELEASE DATE: 9/15/2026  (WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER'S WAREHOUSE)

Author of Piñata, Leopoldo Goût's latest horror novel Rootedis a "a blood reckoning" (Marlon James) where one woman's return to Mexico City digs away the layers of her forgotten past and the Aztec gods she awakened.

There’s nothing wrong with Aurora.

A successful art lawyer, she has returned to Mexico to celebrate a recent campaign for the repatriation of stolen artifacts―in particular a mysterious statue of an Aztec god, The Flayed One.

But Mexico City isn’t as she remembered. Nothing is. Elements of her past hint at darkness and power, and reality begins to crack and warp the streets.

There’s nothing wrong with Aurora.

As Aurora’s sanity unravels, she must pry apart her family’s secrets and accept the simplest of truths: The Flayed One cannot stay buried.

“It wields all the destructive fury of a flayed god determined to avenge centuries’ worth of colonial devastation and greed..”–Cynthia Gómez, Ignyte-nominated author of Muñeca

Other Books by Leopoldo Goût
Piñata

AUTHOR BIO: 

Leopoldo Goût is a multidisciplinary artist, internationally published author, and Emmy-nominated producer. Born in Mexico City and trained at London's renowned Central Saint Martin's School of Art, Goût is known for blending memory, cultural legacy, and speculative visions of the future in his deeply personal and globally resonant works. His critically acclaimed novels include the Genius trilogy, Ghost Radio, Monarca, and Piñata, which was named one of Esquire's Top 10 Horror Novels of 2023.

Praise for Rooted:

"Rooted is a horror novel, so here be monsters. But it's also a blood reckoning with an unspeakable past, where evil is all too human, and the most powerful demons are behind or inside you. It's about the indestructible bond of family through generations-- even as family does the destroying. A canticle of love, hate and magic, Rooted is ultimately about the hope of the entire world resting in the hands of a woman whose same bloodline damned it in the first place. Dazzling."--Marlon James, author of Black Leopard Red Wolf

" Opens with wonderfully, indelibly grotesque imagery, and then howls its way towards a deeply satisfying conclusion. Along its bloody path, the story soars through a cracking, rapidly crumbling Mexico City; along the drying canals of Xochimilco; and through the deeply broken heart of a family willing to protect their loved ones, no matter the cost; it wields all the destructive fury of a flayed god determined to avenge centuries' worth of colonial devastation and greed. Rooted had me dreaming of glowing things beneath my skin."-Cynthia Gómez, Ignyte-nominated author of The Nightmare Box and Other Stories and Muñeca